LANSDOWNE SCHOOL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1941, Page 6

LANSDOWNE SCHOOL

BREAKING=UP CEREMONY LARGELY ATTENDED YESTERDAY. LIST OF PRIZEWINNERS. The annual breaking-up ceremony in connection with the Lansdowne School was held yesterday afternoon in the presence of a large gathering of parents and friends. The chairman of the school committee. Mr J. G. McFarlane, presided. The members of the Junior Red Cross circle organised a stall and a substantial sum was collected for their work.

Mr McFarlane congratulated the pupils and staff on the good work done during the year.

The following is the list of prizewinners: Form 2: Dux prize, Enid Cross; second prizes, Patricia Peek, Joan Wilson; Primary School Certificates: Ngaire Ackerman, Gwyneth Allen, Hazel Buchanan, Enid Cross, Marjorie Emerson, Norma Evernden, Myra Gray, Rose Jennings, Margaret Mcpherson, Alison McFarlane, Sheila McPhee, Ngaire Orsborn, Nancy Pauling, Patricia Peek, Malva Seed, Diane Shaw. Joleen Stewart, Adela Tauwhare, Elizabeth Welsh, Iris Wilson, Joan Wilson, Jack Chamberlain, John Cole, Walter Dell, Rex Fly, Raymond Gibson, lan Graham, Nelson Hill, John Holes, Geoffrey Jaine, Heathcote Lee, Donald McNeilage,' Kenneth Moore, Douglas Pilcher, Leslie Ranston, Eric Rive, Kenneth Teeboon, lan Walker, Stanley Watkins,

The following pupils received prizes in the Dominion Industries Journal writing competition: Shio Young, Ist prize 10s 6d; Joan Wilson, Ist prize 5s 3d; Marion Minifie, Ist prize 3s 9d; Adela Tauwhare, special prize 2s 9d; Alison McKay, special prize, 2s 9d; Diane Gordon, sth prize 3s; Ronald Wong, sth prize 2s 6d. Navy League Certificates were awarded to Robert Hopkirk, Michael Shortland, Him Yon Louis, David Yee, Shio Young, Thompson Wong, Dwyllis Nicholls, Hugh Kent-Johnston, Patricia Holm wood, Joyce Holmwood, Malcolm Hopkirk, Nelson Hill, John Grant, Joyce Grant, Norma EVernden', Keith Dennison, Ronald Dennison.

On behalf of Form 11. pupils Geoffrey Jaine made the presentation of a shaving set and cuff links to Mi- L. Jones, as an expression, he said, of the gratefulness which the class felt for Mr Jones’s sympathetic teaching.