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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23801, 21 November 1942, Page 4

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♦ Members of the Canterbury Education Board stood in silence yesterday as a tribute to the memory of the Hon. H. T. Armstrong. Appreciative reference was made at yesterday’s meeting of the Canterbury Education Board to the services of Mr E. R. Grigg, who has resigned the chairmanship of the Alford Forest School Committee, over which he had presided for 13 years. Corporal E, H. Hitchcock, son of Mr E. Hitchcock, of Christchurch, has received his commission as pilot officer in the electrical (radio location) branch of the R,N.Z.A.F. in England. Pilot Officer Hitchcock is aged 24, and left New Zealand last year. He was educated at the Christchurch West High School and Canterbury University College, from which he graduated as a bachelor of engineering with honours m mechanical and electrical engineering Tribute was paid at yesterday’s meeting of the Canterbury Education Board to the services of the late Mr C. M. Blake, headmaster of the Heathcote School (and- father of Wing Commander Minden Blake, D.F.C.), Mr Alexander Burbery, former assistant master at the Somerfield School, and Sub-Lieutenant W. F. Warner, of the Fleet Air Arm, who was killed on active service, and who was formerly a member of the board’s relieving staff. Mr J. J. Haddock has been appointed to represent the Canterbury Education Board on the Greymouth Technical High School Board. Mr A. A. Adams, the retiring member, was thanked for his services at yesterday’s meeting of the Education Board in Christchurch. Mr A. E. Lawrence was appointed to represent the board on the Timaru Technical High School Board for the unexph-ed term of Mr J. W. Preen, who died recently.