Winners of the Tu Tangata Magazine Essay Competition

Tu Tangata, Issue 8, 1 October 1982, Page 24

Winners of the Tu Tangata Magazine Essay Competition

Form 6 and 7

First: Hoera Taingahue from Ngata Memorial College, Ruatoria.

Second: Elizabeth Foe from Rotorua Girls High.

Third: Tanya Martin from Bay of Islands College.

Form 5

First: Brenda Soutar from Queen Elizabeth College, Palmerston North. Second: Laura Murphy from Panguru High School.

Third: D. Light burn from Whangarei Boys High.

Form 4

First: Sharon Cruickshank from Whang arei Girls High.

Second: Helen Webby from Whangarei Girls High.

Third: Joanne McDonald from Whangarei Girls High.

Form 3

First: Briar Beaglehole from Wellington Girls College.

Second: G. Robinson from Whangarei Boys High.

Third: Sheena McGarvey from Queen Victoria, Auckland.

First prize in each section was SSO cash and SIOO worth of books from Reed Publishers for the school.

Second prize was S3O cash and SSO worth of books.

Third prize was S2O cash and $25 worth of books.

The winners in each section received their prizes at Takapuahia Marae, Porirua on August 29 from Hiwi Tauroa. Two of the winners, Hoera Taingahue and Sharon Cruickshank were flown down for the presentation.

Hoera was accompanied by his grandfather, Joe Taingahue and the presentation was ably supported by east coast people in Wellington for the rugby test between the Wallabies and All Blacks.

The essay judges were Henrietta Maxwell, Willy Kaa, Amster Reedy and Graham Wiremu. All were impressed with the standard of the essays which numbered over three hundred. Because of the quality, many of them will be featured in the magazine in the coming year.

From comments of teachers, and the desire not to clash with the Education Department’s Ngarimu V.C. Essay Competition, it’s planned to run the Tu Tangata competition earlier next year.

To all those who may have been out of the prize-money this year, keep up the writing for next year’s competition.