CAPT. COOK ESSAYS
SEW ZEALAND AWARDS. By Telegraph.—Press AtfiOfiatlon. Wellington, Last Night. Tin- secretary of the British and Foreign Sailors' Society, London, has for warded to the Education Department the results of the easay competition cb "Captain James Cook: his voyages and discoveries, and their value to the na tion, commerce and Christianity." The successful competitors are:—For the North' Island, Patrick Neville, .District High School, Onehunga, and Alice K. Wilson, Girls' Grammar School, Auek- , land. For the South Island, Douglas W. McClurg, Waitaki Boys' High School, Oamaru, and Johanna M. Brosnan, District High School, . Lawrence, Otago. There were 78 competitors from New Zealand, a larger number, says the secretary of the Society, than for the whole of Australia. Essays were scut in by children in (jreat Britain, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zea-
md. Ench successful competitor will e presented with a plaque composed of upper taken from the "Victory" and < ther famous battleships. When noticing the results, the secretary also iys the New South Wales essays weie s a whole of the highest merit, and hat the South Island of New Zealand ame second.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 259, 8 December 1909, Page 3
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