AUCKLAND NORMAL SCHOOL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1926, Page 9

AUCKLAND NORMAL SCHOOL.

NEW HEADMASTER. MR. E. VARLEY HUDSON. Mr. E. Yarley Hudson, 8.A., headmaster of Nelson Park School. Napier,has been promoted to the position of headmaster of the Auckland Normal School after having occupied his present position since the school was first opened in February, 1014.

Mr. Hudson started his teaching career in Christchurch, and was then appointed to Wairoa School, H. 8., where he remained from 1898 to 1899. He was then transferred to the old Napier Main School as second assistant master and remained there from 1899 to 1902, when he was promoted to the post of first assistant master at the Hastings District High School. He remained at that school for eleven years and then went to Napier to take over the headmastership of the Nelson Park School. A man of many parts, Mr. Hudson is also a musical authority and hns made a lifelong study of music in all its branches, and has the musical degree of A.T.F.C. He hns only recently resigned from the conductorship of the Napier Choral Society, and was conductor in 1921 of the Napier Operatic Society. He has also been conductor of tho Hastings Choral and Operatic Societies, and was conductor of the Hastings Liedertafel in 1904. He was a volunteer officer in the old days, nnd from 1890 to 1901 was a lieutenant in the Napier Rifles, and wns a captain in the Hastings Kiflos for about throe years. Born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, in 1K74, Mr. Hudson came to Now Zealand with his parents when a lad six years of age.