HIGH SCHOOL HONORS' SHIELD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 304, 19 December 1908, Page 5

HIGH SCHOOL HONORS' SHIELD

The new honors board at the New Plymouth High School, which was unveiled on Thursday afternoon, is a piece of work that does infinite credit to the institution to which it belongs and >'• the skill and artistic taste of Mr. R. G. Moverley, who designed and carved it. Mr. Moverley is the instructor in the carving class at the New Plymouth Technical School, and this specimen Orhis workmanship shows that the educational authorities have been exceedingly fortunate in their choice. Tfiis tablet is perhaps his finest production. It is carved out of solid fumed English • quartered oak, and has a very substantial appearance. Seen at close quarters, the detail is remarkably fine. The centre, on which the names of the duces of the school are to be inscribed, is a curved surface of German sixteenth" century design, flanked by many finelv-l balanced' contorted scrolls, and embelf lished by the beautiful akanthos lean This" tablet is encircled by a ' laur*i' , wreath, the leaves being very faithfulrjl carved, after the French Renaissance - style of ornamentation. A knotted rib- * bon entwines the leaves, and this culminates in a bow at the base of the shield, producing a very fine effect. At the head of the tablet is the school shield and motto, "Et comitate, et virtute, et sapieatia," in, old English reltef. There are already three names carved into the shield. This very handsome specimen of the wood-carver's art will be placed on view, with, the permission of the school authorities, in Mr. R. J. Deare's window, on Monday, and will doubtless attract the notice of connoisseurs and others.