TAPU.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3301, 21 July 1879, Page 3

TAPU.

""'J (fjbom a coeeespondent.)

.. ,■-..!;> {■.■-.\, Hastings, Saturday, i P||^Banit t<? a,n announcement from 'the: School Committee at the commencement! of the July quarter, that an examination would be held s'arid'prizes' awarded, the Committee resolved to hold the ex;anrina« j tioo,on,Friday, J,he 27th; June last, .and, jan that,day Jjtie jseholars' were examined; <by the Master, Mr John Murray,' jn the^ i^rt*i^encev'pf Wr jE, I;K., HaWkes, .Chair-; Mfii"B^t]£^io 1 qinjnitite i e,;when after a severe^ test examination, the prizes were awarded as follows :~~ „ ! Grammar—lst Class :,,Mis^, Elizabeth^ Haw^eij,;:" ' "do',',;,' 2nd, r 'Class/;. Miss,: jane ! M^sjml'' n^}^i\<,} ■■■'■!■*■ ?'--''-•'■' j Writing—lst Class: Miss Ad a Bennett;! do.i;2Dd:Class, Miss- Catherine O'Brien ;! !,v iMJBs l-'vEthel / ;,J?'&^by and l *MissiEinm»"Hpl£ i "^ '"'\ '■*■]:'■ t i'' \ Arithmetic—'^tidfe^'MeMahbn.' Bills j of Parcels—Miss Elizabeth Jjf awkes. ,;; Special Prizes—Mental ' Arithmetic : Eicha"rd«iHa'#kesr?! Geograp'bjp of New Zealand : Andrew McMahon. , „,.,. ,^ In addition to the above, a number of prizes were 1 riWaf b"ed for ' attehdane'e, good conduct,'&c.;triakiugihdhumberof prizes distributed thirty-six. The examination reflected the greatest credit ; upon, ?the teacher .and;! his"assistant—Miss Mary Murray. i It haring been decided.to celebrate the eTenfeiof'the'ipfesehtatibn by asocial-tea fight, the parents'and friends of the children were invited to attend at the' Schoolroom on Friday, the 18th, at 2.30 p.m.* and on. r that,. day, the prizes -were- ,distribrftkd; !{ik' the\presencft of ,a goodly jmth^iigf^^essrsVSa^kes, Newbj, ati^ Jacobs', the latter gentleman accompanying^ ;jcecipien,t r with ,a fe-w aiia^^pr^pjriatep,remarks, i The children tfien amused themselves in v'the: playgrpund, and. about four o'clock sat down to tea,,-^Wjiiich't'was'provided 'by Mrs McMahon, and too much praise cannot bo given to that lady and hef worse btilf for the,gjgpAjtbingsrftnd.plenty of them provided for the occasion, and to judge' from the happy faces there, universal satisfaction .was vtho dfderof;th'e < day.' ."After;the children,: "ithe parents and friends were entertained. A public concert and hall wootld^iip in the Public Hall, tfbePeveryttee yfeemed perfectiy satisfied with themselves and'everybody else.