Tararu School.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3801, 4 March 1881, Page 2

Tararu School.

Yesterday afternoon the Tararu School building was the scene of a most pleasing ceremony, viz., the presentation of the certificates of proficiency awarded to Peter Gillies Steel and William Henry Victor Hall, owing to their success at the late examination for scholarships. Mr Steedman, Chairman nf the District Committee, presented the certificates, on behalf of the Board of Education ; and in doing so assured the lads that they had his most hearty congratulations, and that, as a member of the School Committee, he felt prouri that the school could turn out such excellent examples of its stedfastness ; and as an inhabitant of the district he looked upon them as having conferred a certain amount of honour on the district, rendering it second to none ; on the Thames at least. He knew that they had laboured under great disadvantages in comparison to the lads who were presented from the Auckland schools; in that they had a more accurate knowledge of the kind of questions that would be asked of them, owing to past experience, and that, though they had not succeeded in taking a money scholarship, stiil they had entitled themselves to free tuition in the Auckland College and Grammar School, which was to be considered very creditable to themselves and to their teacher, Mr Gray. He, of course, knew that a great deal of expense would be entailed if they were to go to Auckland ; and on that account he would do his utmost, in conjunction with the other members of the Committee, to induce the High School Governors to grant that these scholarships be made transferable to the Thames High School. If this could be managed, he felt sure they would take every advantage of the opportunity thus offered to them. He would now call upon the schoolmates of the successful lads to give three hearty cheers in honor of the distinction they had conferred on the school. These were heartily accorded, and the meeting then terminated.