TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1521, 4 December 1886, Page 3

TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL.

i Yesterday was the annual speech day at the Timaru High School. A large number of pareata and friends of pupils were present, tad the whole proeeedings passed off with great eclat. In bis annual report the Sector, the Her. Halkett-Dawson, after speaking on the progress in point of attendance made by the sehool during the year, said : “ Orer twenty students hare been preparing for some one or other of the various public examination!. Our success in former years has no doubt tended to augment the attendance of these who eome to us to work with s. weM-defined object in view’s It is the workers with a purpose that invariably do the best, even at sohool. I know nothing mo-e important than early decision as to one’s aim in life. I know nothing more hurtful than procrastination in commencing to strike out in seme one line. All boys and girls form,

fortunately far the world, high estimates of their own chances of attaining excellence, and are more attracted by the prospects of a great lucoeis than they are deterred by the fear of failure. Parents and teachers recognising this idea should nsver lose an opportunity of con--ntratmg it on some particular object. Ti y who does not know or care what he is r or do in life usually bseomss a laggard in toe race. I have had during the year many gratifying evidences of secondary education by employers of labor and managers of commercial institutions. It is greatly to the credit of one of the strongest Bank.* in these colonies that its clerks must now pass an examination similar to matriculation. A University certificate has, I am glad to say, in in other oases marked out applicants for favorable consideration and success. I think it wise, however, to say that young men are somewhat blind to their own interests in preferring man’s son hss good natural abilities he is far mere likely te rise to a good position in the world from the bench of ths artisan than from the desk of the clerk." The following tak# the medals:— Governors’ gold medalists (awarded to aenior pupil on year’* mark! in English, Latin, arithmetic, science, history, and geography)—Boye, Alexander Ball; girls, Miss Sutherland. Governors’ silver medalists (awarded to junior pupils on marks of tbe year)—Boys, frank Sims j girls, Miss Jessie Plante.