THE subject chosen for the seventh Life-boat Essay Competition was " How does the Life-boat Service Help the Cause of Peace between. Nations " A number of schools have written that they have found the subject rather too difficult for the younger children, and in view of this it is intended for next year to choose one less abstract.

Possibly the subject is the reason why, in some districts, a smaller number of schools have taken part in the com petition than in 1926, but the fact that nearly 1,500 did take part shows that the schools as a whole have not been deterred by the subject, and in London and the South of England and Wales actually more schools competed than in 1926.

It looks, in fact, as if the subject had appealed more to the south than to the north.

The total number competing was 1,492 as compared with 1,508 in 1926.

The largest number, this year comes from the South of England, with 390 as compared with 349. Tie North of England is second, with 381 as compared with 502; London is third instead of fifth, with 215 as compared with 147; and the Midlands is fourth instead of third, with 204 as compared with 275. In Ireland, for the first time since the new constitution was established there, the schools of the Irish Free State have taken, part, 122 Irish schools altogether competing, as compared with 28 from Northern 'Ireland last year. In Wales there has been an increase of interest in the competition, and the number of schools has risen from 14 to 35. Altogether 157 Irish and Welsh schools took part.

Scotland comes sixth with 145, as compared with 193 last year.

The quality of the best essays was high, and some of the boldest attempts to tackle a difficult subject came from the younger children. In fact, a girl of ten was a very close second for the prize for the best essay in the whole of Great Britain and Ireland. A good many essayists were content simply to say that by saving foreign lives the Service contributed to peace, and this done they wrote about its work in general, while a few took refuge in rhetoric. Among those who really dealt with the subject the most noticeable thing was their desire to express the international influence of the Lifeboats in concrete terms. Some of them did it in most charming and original ways, although nearly all were inclined to give the Life-boatman too great an influence in international politics. One, for example, wrote: " Peace is what all civilized people wish to bring about between nations. The League of Nations is helping to do this, but the Life-boat Service has a better chance." Another essayist worked out with praiseworthy care how the influence of a life saved spreads through a country : " When foreigners are rescued they go home to their own countries and tell their friends how they were saved, and who it was that saved them, and eventually this gets into the newspapers ; then the English reporter that is in this country sends the news to the English newspapers, and so this goes on till Ambassador gets friendly with Ambassador, and parliament gets friendly with parliament, so that when newspapers get friendly and Ambassadors get friendly, also parliaments friendly, then there will be peace." Another saw the rescue of a ship having an immediate effect on the relations between two countries.

" Perhaps a Belgian ship is wrecked, and the crew who are saved go back to their country and tell their king about the bravery and kindness of the British people. The king is very pleased with this and sends a letter to our king, thanking him for the kindness of his people and telling him that he will do more trade with Britain in future, and also that he will not be willing to go to war with him at any time." Yet another, an Irish essayist, brought the kings into it in a still more personal way : "If the King of England was in rebellion against the King of Spain, and lie was out rowing one day and Ms boat began to sink, and a Spanish Life-boat saved him, he would of course draw Peace between the two nations." Yet another imagined a delightful hospitality awaiting all who go abroad : " If a French boat were saved, and one of the gentlemen went home and told his people what had happened, how do you think his children, when they were grown up, wonld feel ? Why, they would be inclined to give each Briton whom they met a treat in their own home," But the two most imaginative suggestions came from two essayists in the South of England. One of them saw a war actually being stopped by the Life-boat Service, with the providential help of a storm: "A war may arise, and it may happen that while the enemies are on their way to England they might get wrecked, and the Lifeboats might be the cause of saving them, at the same time saving strife." The other looked forward to so many people being rescued, and their gratitude being so strong, that it would be impossible to raise armies : " Have those on board who are rescued not reason to be thankful to their deliverers 1 Indeed, they have great reason. . . . When their king seeks a quarrel against the country whose men rescued them, they are unwilling to fight for him. . . . Here, then, we have the life-boats' stare in the making of peace—the king tries to raise an army, but can only raise one which he thinks insufficient to attack the enemy's kingdom. Therefore he has to abandon his ideas." The wish to make it as clear as possible that the Life-boatman is uninfluenced except by a desire to save life, produced some graphic phrases.

Some looked at it from the national point of view.

One essayist wrote: " If a man rescued a person from drowning, he could not look at that person's face and, on discovering that he was a foreigner, dump him back again," while another put it in a different way, but with little less emphasis, by saying : " Our Lifeboatmen save people of other nations whether brown, black, white, red or yellow." Others, again, treated it more personally: " If you save a man from drowning and find he is your enemy you would not throw him back into the water." Another puts the unselfish humanity of the Life-boatman still higher : " Never mind if the man OT men killed your brother yesterday, it is our duty to save friend or foe—that is the spirit of the Life-boatman." Others, again, looked at it rather from the moral standpoint: " If the sailors who were on the ship were the lowest type of people our brave Life-boatmen do not hesitate. They go at once to the rescue, never stopping a moment to think if the sailors are worth it." Several competitors experienced some difficulty in saying that the Institution was founded. One wrote that it was " found out in England," another wrote that it was " issued," but the one we like best wrote that it was " ordained." Yet another described it as founded in a fit of irritation. " In the year 182i, while Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Hillary, Bart., was on holiday in the Isle of Man, there were so many wrecks in one week that his holiday was spoilt." The following phrases also deserve to be quoted : " All people who live on an island are bound to suffer from the effects of the waves which are continually beating upon the shore." " Life-boatmen perform their task with Pith, Power and Promptitude." " In times of war every country distrusts its neighbours, and in peace all are brothers." " The Life-boat Society is just like a blessing in disguise." " England being solely surrounded by water, food for the inhabitants must be brought over the huge expanse of sea. . . . London alone has a population of 6,000,000 people, and these have to be fed twice or three times a day." " The British Isles appear to be solitary dots on the shiftless sea of existence." " If every person who professes -to be an adherent to any organ for the promotion of peace among living creatures, made it a periodical habit to contribute to the Life-boat Institution, he would do better than explaining lengthy and ponderous matters in ecstasy of high-flown Khekrrie to a, gaping crowd of citizens with a channel connecting both ears." " When the founder of the Life-boat Service organized this Institution he did not patent it so that no other country could copy him." " The Life-boatmen have to keep the people who were drowned till they are well again " (not from an Irish school).

" Some people say that the Czar of Germany was the devil let loose, but he was glad when he heard what the Life-boat Institution was doing." " Well done, the Life-boat Service! You have averted war and saved your country many thousand pounds. Carry on with your good work, and your reward will come later." No one could read the phrases quoted without feeling that the subject had really roused the interest and stirred the imagination of the writers.

An Irish Victory.

It is, however, to none of those from whom we have quoted that the special prize has been awarded for the best essay sent in from the -whole country.

That honour goes to Fairy Patterson, of Hall Street National School, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan, Ireland, whose well - thought - out and charmingly written essay we print in full. No hesitation was felt in choosing her essay for the first prize, but it is only fair to say that Mary Goodfellow, of Bedlington Station Council School, Northumberland, who is only ten years old, sent in a really admirable essay for her age. It was, in fact, better than very many of the essays received from boys and girls three and four years older, and with the handicap for age was a very close second to Fairy Patterson's for the special prize.

The competition has now been held seven times, but in 1924 no Irish schools took part. In no fewer than four out of the other six years the special prize has been won by an Irish essayist.

The Shield Winners.

For the third year in succession the Challenge Shields have all been won by schools which have not previously held them. Not only this, but in London a Battersea school has won it for the first time; in the North of England a Northumbrian school for the first time; in the Midlands a Lincolnshire school for the first time ; in Scotland an Inverness school for the first time ; and in Ireland a school in Co. Monaghan for the first time.

This year is distinctly a girls' year.

Four of the Challenge Shields have been won by girls schools; the best essay of the year comes from a girl, and the runner-up is a girl. So far the special prize has been won four times by girls, and three times by boys. Of the remaining 204 prize-winners, however, 114 are boys and 90 are girls. It is also worthy of note that two of the shield-winners, Edith M. Munro, of Fayers Public School, Inverness, and Fanny Smith, of Ingoldmells Council School, Lincolnshire, won certificates in the competition last year, Edith Munro being fourth in Scotland, and Fanny Smith thirty-fifth in the Midlands.

Below is the list of successful competitors, and the essay by Fairy Pattetson.

She will receive a copy of the five guinea edition of Britain's Lifeboats, by Major A. J. Dawson, signed by the Prince of Wales, and a certificate.

Each of the other five who head the lists for the districts will receive a copy of the ordinary edition of Britain's Lifeboats and a certificate. The remaining 204 boys and girls in the lists will each be presented with a certificate.

The name of the winner in each district will be inscribed on the District Challenge Shield, and the school will hold the Shield for a year. Each of these six schools will also receive, as a permanent record of its success, a copy of the certificate awarded to the pupil. If a shield is won three years running by the same school it becomes the school's property.

The particulars of the next competition will be sent out at the beginning of 1928, and we hope once again to have whose invaluable help in this year the interest and support of the Educa- competition the Institution is most tion Authority and the teachers, for grateful.

List of Successes in the Essay Competition.

LONDON DISTRICT (County Council Area).

Name.

Christopher Street .

May Florence Ludford Dennis Jones . . . .

Daisy Willson . . . .

Edward Waters . . .

Doris Flay Marjorie Ramsden .

Hilda Gaskin . . . .

Herbert Alfred Shurety Martha Tablinsky .

Hilda Shipp John Noel Poingdestre Dorothy Leathers .

Marjorie Levitt . . . .

Jack Isbitsky . . . .

Hortance Dubois Avia Reader . . . .

Evelyn Triekey . . . .

John Parker . . . .

J. W. Shearman Percy Knibb . . . .

A. Joyce F. Swauson . . . .

Mark Isaaman . . . .

W. Forman FredThortoiv . . . .

William Clarke . . . .

Arthur Kemp . . . .

Arthur Thomas Kelcey Gertrude Carr . . . .

George Daly . . . .

Violet Adams . . . .

Arthur Franklin Catherine Elizabeth Lees .

Name.

Mary Goodfellow .

Joseph H. Canessa .

Eileen Lacey . . . .

Age.

11 13J 13 134 11 13J 14 10J 13J 13| isf 13J 13 13 10 10J 13 13J 14 N Age.

10 12 13 School.

Battersea Central School for Boys, Surrey Lane, S.W. 11.

Credon. Road Girls' School, Rotherhithe New Road.

S.E. 16.

Stonhouse Street L.C.C. Boys' School, Clapham, S.W. 4, Ethelburga Street Girls' School. Battersea, S.W. 11.

Church Street L.C.C. Boys' School, Kennington, S.W.

St. George's Row Senior Girls' School, Ebury Bridge, S.W. 1.

Glyn Road L.C.C. School, Clapton Park, E. 5.

Ethelburga Street Girls' School, Battersea, S.W. 11.

St. Paul's Bentinck Church of England Boys' School, Rossmore Road, N.W. 1.

Mile End Central School, Myrdle Street, E. 1, The Lawrence School, Mansford Street, Bethnal Green, E. 2.

The Wilherforce Church of England Boys' School, Kilburn Lane, Queen's Park, W.

Royal Hospital School, Greenwich, S.E. 10.

Kingwood Road Demonstration Girls' School, Fulham, S.W. 6.

Kingwood Road Demonstration Girls' School, Fulham, S.W. 6.

Westminster Jews' Free Boys' School, Hanway Place, W. 1.

St. George's Row School, Ebury Bridge, S.W. 11.

Glyn Road L.C.C. School, Clapton Park, E. 5.

Bartram's Roman Catholic Girls' School, Haverstock Hill.

Battersea Central School for Boys, Surrey Lane, S.W. 11.

Latymer Foundation School, 233, Hammersmith Road, W. 6.

Rosebery Avenue L.C.C. School, Holborn, E.G. 1.

Station Road Boys' School, N.I.

Kilburn Lane Central Boys' School, Kendal Rise, W. 10.

Stepney Jewish School, 71, Stepney Green, E. 1.

St. Paul's Bentinck Church of England Boys' School, Rossmore Boad, N.W. 1.

Monteith Road L.C.C. School, Bow, E. 3.

Adyr Road L.C.C. School, Peckham, S.E. 15.

Scarsdale Road L.C.C. Boys' School, S.E. 5.

New King's Road School, Fulham, S-W. 6.

St. James the Less School, Westminster.

Droop Street L.C.C. Boys' School, North Kensington.W. 10.

Senior Street Girls' School, Paddington, W. 2.

Rosebery Avenue L.C.C. School, Holborn, E.C. 1.

Crampton Street Girls' School, Walworth, S.E. 17.

ORTH OF ENGLAND.

School.

Bedlington Station Council School, Bedlington, Northumberland.

Western Boys' School, Penman Street, North Shields, Northumberland.

St. Mary's School, Crewe, Cheshire.

LIST OF SUCCESSES— NC Name.

Gordon Ferguson Doris Roberts . . . .

Harry Fildes . . . .

May Glover . . . .

Robert Windsor Harold Andrew . . . .

Walter E. Clarke . . .

Ida Eastwood Frederick Button .

John Steel Stanley Walton . . .

Daniel Kelly . . . .

Alice Eckersley . . . .

Reginald T, Standing .

George A. Scougall .

Frederick D. Bryson .

Arthur Andsley Leslie J. Preston Ernest Garbutt . . . .

James Bradley . . . .

HaroJd Dobinson .

Samuel Britten . . . .

James Lawson . . . .

Edith A. Heywood .

Rose Stanton . . . .

Daniel Barnes . . . .

Cecilia Langin . . . .

Margaret A. BvockfeKurst .

Albert Phillips . . . .

Terrenoe Walker Amy Harrison . . . .

Renee CliorHon . . . .

Name.

Fanny Smith . . . .

Alice Jsaacs Marion Lynam . . . .

Irene Barlow . . . .

Harold Truman Eveline Kowley Rita White James Naylor . . . .

RTH( Age.

H 14 14 14 11 13 14 13 14 13 13 13 13 13 12 13 14 14 13 13 12 12 14 13 13 14 13 14 13 13 13 13 Age.

13 13 13 13 13 13 13 12 )F ENGLAND— continued.

School.

Queen Victoria Boys' School, North Shields, Northumberland.

Hunter Street School, Chester, Cheshire.

Wilmslow Council School, Cheshire.

Pye Bank Girls' Council School, Andover Street, Sheffield.

Lister Drive School, Stoneycroft, Liverpool.

Lee Street Undenominational School, Atherton, near Manchester.

Carcroft Park Lane Boys' School, Carcroft, near Doncaster, Yorkshire.

Whitewell Bottom Council School, Waterfoot, Rossendale, Lancashire.

Balfour Road Senior Boys' School, Runcorn, Cheshire.

St. Mary's Roman Catholic School, Ulverston, Lancashire.

Hirst South Boys' Council School, Ashington, Northumberland.

St. Vincent's Boys' School, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire.

St. John the Baptist (Blair) School, Bridgewater Street, Little Hulton, Bolton.

Longmoor Lane Council School, Aintree, Liverpool.

Bedfington Station Council School, Belington, Northumberland.

Demesne Road School, Douglas, Isle of Man.

Victoria Central School, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Gladstone Road School, Scarborough, Yorkshire.

Whitwood Mere Council School, Castleford, Yorkshire.

Stanley Road Council School, Hollinwood, Oldham, Lancashire.

St. John the Baptist (Blair) School, Bridgewater Street, Little Hulton, Bolton.

Park Lane Boys' School, Carcroft, near Doncaster.

St. John's Boys' School, Middlesbrough, Yorks.

Rhodes' Council School, Broad Street, Rhodes, near Manchester.

Tinsley Council School, Plumpers Road, Tinsley, Sheffield, Yorks.

Whitewell Bottom Council School, Waterfoot, Rossendale, Lancashire.

Chowbent School, Atherton, Lancashire.

Bold Heath Church of England School, near Widnes, Lancashire.

St. George's Church of England School, Heyworth Street, Everton, Liverpool.

St. Bede's Roman Catholic Boys' School, South Shields.

Central Girls' School. Egremont, Cumberland.

St. Catherine's Church of England School, Horwich, Bolton, Lancashire.

MIDLANDS.

School.

Ingoldmelk Council School, Skegness.

Baptist Street Council School Bristol.

Horsley Woodhouse Council School, Derby.

Etruria Girls' Council School, Stoke-on-Trent.

Oxbridge Street Boys' School, Burton-on-Trent.

St. Paul's School, Mt. Pleasant, Stoke-on-Trent.

B&rnfoy Road Council School) Ncwa rk.-on-Trent, Notts.

St. Philip's Roman Catholic School, Mansfield, Notts.

LIST OF SUCCESSES— INLANDS— eotttinwd.

Name.

V. Parsons .

William Nicholls Lena Barnes . . . .

Annie E. Yorke Maynard Buggan .

May Blaxter .

Kenneth William Stone Mary Sylvia Mould Arthur Catley . . . .

Maurice Clarkson . Alice Marvrood . . . .

Joseph Allen Caplis Elsie Castledine Albert Dawson . . . .

Leonard Andrews .

A, Victor Williams .

I v y Donaldson. . . . .

Margaret C o x ...

John Barraclough .

Josephine Clay . . . .

Alfred Griffiths . . . .

Maurice King . . . .

Cicely Salt Ronald Fawkes . . . .

Maisie Jones . . . .

Laura Seandrett Ernest P. Goodyear Fred Hall . . . .

Name.

Leslie G. Brown Edwin Jones . . . .

James H. "Wilks Albert B. Bobson . . .

Pauline Hosier . . . .

Walter Craucher Nellie Fiaser . . . .

Constance Lennox .

Dorothy Cray . . . .

Kathleen Paiker Eric Mills . . . .

James Dimmock George S. Robinson I v y Boothy . . . .

Gladys "Welch . . . .

Lilian Adkins . . . .

Eodney Campkin .

Frederick Harding .

Age.

13 13 12 13 13 14 24 14 13 13 12 14 13 13 12 13 13 14 13 13 U 14 14 12 14 13 14 14 School.

K.nowle Soys' School, Bristol.

Boys1 Central School, Bilstoc, Staffs.

Cannon Street Girls' School, Hanley, Staffs.

Goldenhill Council School, Mixed Department, GoIdenhiE, Stoke-on-Trent.

Greenbank Council School, Bristol.

Hazel Street Council School, Leicester.

Leek Wootton Church of EcgJand School, Leek, Staffs. j Sefton Park Senior School, AsWey Down, Bristol.

Bamby Road Council School, Newark- on-Trent, Notts.

Endowed Church of England School, Cowbit, Spalding, Lines.

Witbern Church of England School, Withern, Alford, Lines.

Corby Council School, Rettering, Nortbants.

Rufford School, Ollerton, ATewarlc, Notts.

Mixed School, Awsworfh, Notts. j Wesleyan School, Newark-on- Trent, Notts.

Lower Grammar School, Risfey, Derby.

Happfield Council School, Stoke-on-Trent.

Council School (Senior Girls' Department), Hinckley, Leicestershire.

St. John's Boys' School, Worfcsop, Notts.

Alderwasley Church of England School, Derbyshire.

Emmanuel Mixed School, St. Phijip's, Bristol.

Kenilworth Church of England Central School, Warwickshire.

Florence Council Girls' School, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.

Twyning Council School, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

City Road Council School, Birmingham.

Cottisford Council School, Cottisfbrd, Brackley, Northants, Nettleham Church of England Mixed School, Lindsey, Lincoln.

Kfvnt, "Ra.nk Rnhonl. "Rn-xton. TieTh-CRhire.

SOUTH OF ENGLAND.

Age.

13 14 14 14 10 14 14 14 13 13 14 13 13 11 14 14 10 14 ScftooJ, Stamshaw Boys' School, Portsmouth.

St. Mary's Boys' School, Twickenham.

Keedham Orphanage School, Parley, Surrey.

North Walthametow Central School, Greenleaf Boad, Walthamstow, E. 17.

Heston Mixed School, Heston, Middlesex.

St. Luke's Church of England School, Southsea, Portsmouth.

Ludkw Road Girls' School, Itehen, Southampton.

Church Street Girls' School, Portsmouth.

Portsea Free School, Portsmouth.

Wood Street Girls' Schoof, Walthamstow, E. 17.

Draytort Road Council School, Boys' Department, Portsmouth.

Alexandra Senior Mixed School, Watford, Herts.

Ash Common Church of England School, Ash, Surrey.

Byng Road Council School, Bamet.

St. John's School, Lemsford, Hatfield, Herts.

Dudden Hill Girls' School, Willesden, N.W. 10.

Shenley Council Boys' School, Shenley, Herts.

Fratton School, Portsmouth.

LIST OF SUCCESSES— SOUTH OF ENGLANI — continued.

Name.

Phyllis Hagger . . . .

Kathleen Pratt . . . .

John Hellier . . . .

R o y Cambrill . . . .

Leslie Nuldnett . . . .

Richard Dodd . . . .

Grace P . Irons . . . .

Phyllis Old Hubert Bawden Lucy Kefcch Ronald Giles . . . .

Cyril Hall Frances Niesel . . . .

Arthur Weller . . . .

Doris Gayton . . . .

R. Austin Name.

Editfa M. Munro William A. Abbott . . .

Tom Kyle HeUen Scott . . . .

Agnes Brown . . . .

Ethel Scott David Baillie . . . .

Margaret MacLeod .

Hugh M. Boss . . . .

Nan JFitzpatriok Robert Phin Robertson Stanley Smith . . . .

Marion K. Ball our .

Robert Brown . . . .

Annie I . Ward . . . .

Agnes D. W. Russell .

David Clark . . . .

Age.

14 13 12 13 14 14 14 13 12 13 14 13 14 13 13 14 Schooi.

Forest Road Girl's School, Walthamstow, E. 1".

Northchurch Church of England School, Herts.

Ladysmith Road Boy's School, Exeter.

Church of England (Boys') School, Birchington, Kent.

St. Andrew's Church of Kngland School, Worthing.

St. George's School, Raglan Road, Walthamstow, E. 17.

Shaftesbury Road Girls' School, Forest Gate, E. 7.

Goodmayes Girls' School, Castleton Road, Goodmayes, Ilford.

Council School, Boys' Department, Stony Stratford, Bucks, Grove Road Girls' Council School, Gosport, Hants.

Cowley Boys' Church of England School, Cowley, Oxon.

New Road Boys' Council School, New Road, Portsmouth.

Pound Lane Council School, Willesden Green, N.W. 10.

Midhurst Church of England Mixed School, Petersfield Road, Midhurst, Sussex, Girls' Department.

Council School, Girls' Department, Stony Stratford, Bucks.

South TTarrinwav Tinner School. Mattison Road. N. 4, SCOTTISH DISTRICT.

Age.

13 14 H 13 13 13 14 14 14 14 13 13 14 13 14 12 14 Marjorie Ross . . . . | 12 Robert Crowe . . . .

Martha A. Thomason .

Ella Murray . . . .

John Buchan . . . .

James Medde . . . .

John Seatter . . . .

Arthur Brown . . . .

Mary Ciandles . . . .

Archie McDonald .

Billy Harper . . . .

William Sharp . . . .

Alan White . . . .

Jenny Burnside 12 14 13 12 13 13 14 11 14 11 11 13 14 School.

Foyers Public School, Inverness, Scotland.

Uphall Public School, West Lothian, Scotland.

Stronord Public School, Palnure, Newton-Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland.

Burness Public School, Sanday, Orkney.

Lullona Public School, Shetland, Scotland.

Burghu&d Public School IBtirgliG&d Morayshire Scotland.

Stobswell Central School, Dundee, Scotland.

Altandhu School, Achiltibuie byGrarve,Ross-shire,Scotland.

Rothes Higher Grade Public School, Morayshire, Scotland.

Stobswell Central School, Dundee, Scotland.

Ollaberry Mixed Public School, Shetland.

West End School, Elgin, Scotland.

Rendall Public School, Orkney, Newmilns Higher Grade School, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Rothes Higher Grade Public School, Morayshire, Scotland.

Lamington Public School, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Gallowflat School, Rutherglen, Scotland.

Dunnikier Public School, Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland.

St. Mary's Episcopal School. Dunblane, Perthshire, Scotland.

Laxfirth Public School, Brettabister, Shetland.

Bounington Road Public School, Leith, Scotland.

Peterhead Central School, Peterhead, Scotland.

Aberuthven Public School, Auchterardej, Perthshire, Scotland.

Rendall Public School, Orkney.

Mid-Yell Public School, Shetland.

Sciennes Public School, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Baillieston Primary School, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Pulteneytown Academy, Wick, Caithness-shire, Scotland.

Sciennes Public School, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Public School, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland.

Stablestone Primary School.

LIST OF SUCCESSES— SCOTTISH DISTRICT— con tinned.

Name.

Henrietta McLeod .

Margaret Fotheringham .

Betty Forbes . . . .

Robert Shearer . . . .

Age.

13 12 12 13 School.

Altandhu School, Achiltibuie by Garve, Ross-shire, Scotland.

North Links Public School, Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland.

Pulteneytown Academy, Wick, Caithness-shite, Scotland.

laverbervie Public School, Kincardineshire, Scotland.

IRELAND AND WALES.

Name.

*Fairy Patterson . . .

Gladys May Lewis .

Nat Moore Lilias Martin . . . .

Jessie M. McCracken .

Thomas Burden Vincent 0 Sullivan .

William Jenkins Agnes Mullen . . . .

Islwyn Jones . . .

Harold Newman Mollie Tivenan . . . .

John Burraston James MacNieholas William N. Emery Ceinwen Jones . . . .

Robert Ferguson Kathleen Lavelle Edward Millington .

Sadie Cleland . . . .

Annie Clarke . . . .

Susan McCully . . . .

Philip Gaflney . . . .

Lilian E . Stark . . . .

Irene Davidson . . . .

James Anderson Florence L. Miller .

William O'Riordan Margaret E. Whyte William J. F. Steele . .

Dan McNeiE • . . . .

Olive Clampett . . . .

Brian McLoughlin .

Maureen Morrison .

Phyllis Lemon . . . .

Age.

14 11 14 12 14 14 14 13 13 8 14 12 13 12 14 13 12 13 12 14 13 13 12 13 13 13 12 13 14 14 14 12 14 13 13 School.

Hall Street National School, Ballybay, Co. Monagban.

Lakefield Road Girls' School, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire.

Baden Powell Public Elementary School, Belfast.

Baden Powell Public Elementary School, Belfast.

Annalong Public Elementary School, Annalong, Co. Down, Ireland.

Annalong Public Elementary School, Annalong, Co. Down, Ireland.

Union Boys' School, Cork, Ireland.

Craig-yr-Eos Boys' School, Penycraig, Rhondda.

Knockminna National School, Ballymote, Stigo.

Trealaw Boys' School, Trealaw, Rhondda.

The Boys' Model School, Cliftonville, Belfast.

Kiltycreighton National School, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland.

Whitbourne School, near Worcester, Worcestershire.

Carrowmore National School, Lavagh, Co. Sligo.

Cathedral Boys' School, Londonderry.

Cathedine School, Bwlch S. O., Brecon.

Killaughey Public Elementary School, Millisle, Co. Down.

Lislaekagh Girls' School, Swinford, Co. Mayo, Ireland.

St. Andrew's National School, Dolphin's Barn, Dublin.

KUlinchy Woods Public Elementary School, Crossgar, Co.

Down.

Kilcurley Girls' National School, Kilourley, Dundalk.

The Viscount Bangor Public Elementary School, Killough, Co. Down, Ulster.

Cloughjordan Boys' National School, Co. Tipperary.

Marloes National Provided School, Milf ord Haven.

Wood Street Council School, Cardiff.

McQuiston Institute Public Elementary School, Castlereagh Road, Belfast.

Cwmpadarn Council School, Llanbadarn, Aberystwyth, Cardigan.

Fota Island National School, Cobh. Co. Cork.

Orritor Public Elementary School, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Orritor Public Elementary School, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone.

Hon. Irish Society's School, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry.

Newport Road School, Westport, Co. Mayor.

Inishark Bilingual School, Cleggan, P.O., Co. Galway.

The Model School, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry.

Ninian Park Girls' Council School, Cardiff.

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