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CRADDOCK WELLS SCHOLARSHIPS.

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CRADDOCK WELLS SCHOLAR- SHIPS. PRESENTED BY MR. ALFRED THOMAS, M.P. Mr. Alfred Thomas, M.P., presented the Craddock Wells Scholarship certificates to the boys and girls from the Cardiff elemen- tary school at the Severn-road Board Schools on Wednesday afternoon. As in previous years, the school selected for the scene of the presentation was the one which contributed the largest number of successful candidates to the examination, and for the second year in succession the Severn-road School gained this distinction. Alderman Sanders, J.P.; the chairman of the Cardiff Intermediate Governing Body, under whose auspices the scholar- ships are given, presided over a large meeting. The Chairman addressed the school children on the kistory of the Craddock WelLs Charity, explaining to them how, two hundred years ago, sixteen acres of land had been bequeathed to the town by Craddock Wells. Forty years ago the land realised only £ 67, but to-day it brought in an annual income of £ 1,430, and in a few years they would have £ 1,600. iftiis year there had been a larger number of competitors than ever before—292 boys and 232 girls had sat for the examination, and of these 56 gained a sufficient per- centage of marks to claim the scholarship, and the governors were able to give the scholarship to each one. Out of this num- ber ten vi-er,- from the Severn-road Boys' School, and five from the girls' school, last year the girls' school having gained the largest number. The second school wns the Roath Park Boys', which took seven scholarship?. There were now 101 scholars in tho Higher Grade School who had gained Craddock Wells Scholarships, and during the eight and a half years that the intermediate governors had distributed the charity they had spent L2,436 on it. Mr. Alfred Thomas, M.P., then pre- sented certificates both to the scholars who had earned the continuation grant and to those who had gained the grant for the first time. Mr. John Duncan presented the four certificates for the scbolarships of L3 each presented by Alderman Sanders, J.P. The nameiõ of the successful children have already been published. Mr. Alfred Thomas subsequently addressed the meeting, repealling how 25 years ago, when he entered the Cardifl: Corporation, his attention was called to a promising member. He was told th4, that member was "a. little fussy recruit from Canton"—(laughter)—but that "fussy little recruit" was destined to reseue a charity from producing £67 a year and to make it worth £ 1,436. The work took many years, and in it Alderman Sanders was greatly assisted by the late Alderinzn David Duncan, to whose services justice had not yet been done in Cardiff. Having- congratulated the holders of the scholar- ships and Mr.Waugh, the headmaster of the Higher Grade School, on the large number of boys from that school who obtained high positions in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Mr. Thomas went on to say that all the educational establishments of the country, from the university to the higher grade and the elementary schools, should be under one authority, and that all the tuition in tkose establishments should be free. (Applause.) Mr. John Duncan, the deputy-chairman of the governing body. meted a vote of thanks to Mr. nllfred' Thomas, M.P., for presenting the prises, and to Alderman Sanders for presiding. He pointed out to the children the large opportunities open to them for gaining, not only the Craddock Wells Scholarships, but the higher scholarships as well. Sir John Gorst had said that Cardiff possessed a system of education, so far as progressive steps were concerned, unequalled by any other town in the kingdom. (Hear, hear.) Dr. Thomas Wallace seconded, and it was carried, the Chairman and Mr. Thomas returning thanks. The National Anthem closed the proceedings.

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