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SUCCESSFUL ESSAYIST
NOEL GOSS, OF TOORAK
Wins Several Competitions
Noel Frederick Goss, only child of Mr.
and Mrs. F. G. Goss, of Rosebrae, Roth-
bury avenue, Toorak, has shown outstand-
ing ability in literary efforts.
His latest achievement is in winning the
essay competition of the Royal Empire
Society, formerly known as the Royal
Colonial Institute. This competition is
worldwide and open to students in three
classes. That won in this State by the
young man was for class A. for lads less
NOEL GOSS of Toorak, winner of the Royal Empire Society essay corepetition. Help
NOEL GOSS
of Toorak, winner of the Royal Empire
Society essay corepetition.
than 19 years of age. It carries a local
prize of. £4 4/ donated by Sir Josiah
Symon, and the essay is also sent to Eng-
land for competition with efforts from
rther parts of the world.
Although only 16 years of age at the
time of writing the essay. he has won
several other competitions, including the
best contribution to "The Prince Alfred
College Chronicle," the school paper, the
Howard Vaughan prize, presented by the
Head master for the best essay on the work
of the League of Nations, an intra-school
competition, and a prize for a paper on the
Einstein theory of relativity.
He has received the whole of his educa-
tion at Prince Alfred College, and is at
present full school prefect and captain
of boats. His principal interest in sport
is confined to rowing, which was revived
in the college last season after a lapse of
25 years. He also plays tennis, and in
duilges in pedestrianism.
He expects to leave school at the end of
this year. although he is ambitious to take
his arts degree. Journalism has an at-
traction for him, and he hopes to enter
that profession after leaving school.
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