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NGARIMU V.C.
ESSAY CONTEST
Some Winning Entries
The Ngarimu V.C. Essay Competition, held annually, is open to all Maori school children. The Ngarimu V.C. and 28th (Maori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board awards eight prizes for the best essays submitted; prizes go to the best essay written in Maori, and the best one written in English, in each of these four sections: Forms I and II; Forms III and IV; Form V; and Form VI.
In the 1963 competition the winners were as follows:—
Essays in English
Forms I and II: Hinemihi P. Kingi, Kuratau Maori School, Tokaanu.
Forms III and IV: Ngahuia Gordon, Western Heights High School, Rotorua.
Form V: Janet Yates, Feilding Ag. High School, Feilding.
Form VI: Victoria Nathan, Queen Victoria School, Auckland.
Essays in Maori
Forms I and II: No essays submitted in this class.
Forms III and IV: Whaia Rihari, St Peter's Maori School, Auckland.
Form V: Kate Wharerimu, Auckland Girls' Grammar School, Auckland.
Form VI: Tamihana K. King, Te Aute College, Hawkes Bay.
The subjects for the essays were chosen by the judges of the competition. On the next few pages we publish three of the winning entries.
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For several years past the Maori Purposes Fund Board has made a grant of £5000 to the Department of Education in Auckland for educational purposes. This annual grant is now being paid to the Maori Education Foundation. Applications for assistance from this money should be made on the Foundation's standard application from and sent direct to the Foundation.
