EMPIRE YOUTH
CANADIAN GIRLS WIN ESSAY CONTEST. OTTAWA, Canada. Two young Canadians, both from the Prairie Province of Saskatchewan, won the highest award • for girls in the Empire essay contest on ideas for an Empire youth movement. They were Jessie L. Robertson, of Regina, and Edith Boyce Olding, of North Battle,. ford. They tied for Queen Mary’s prize. Nine other Canadians won prizes for expression of their ideas for association of youth throughout the. Commonwealth. Canada’s record of 11 prizes out of 50 available to ail parts of the Empire was considered remarkable. The contest was announced at a youth rally in London, England, last May, when 8,000 schoolboys and girls from the United Kingdom, the Dominions and colonies, were gathered together to hear the Prime Minister, now Earl Baldwin. The contest sponsored by the Overseas Education League, drew more than 500 entries from boys and girls of 14 to 19 years. Plans are underway for a formal prize-giving in London this summer.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1938, Page 4
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