“Good Pupils Not Mentioned”
School prize-giving speeches already reported had as usual made no mention of those pupils who did a good job: all the emphasis has been on the few who caused trouble, said the headmaster of the Christchurch West High School (Mr C. A. Noble) at the school prize-giving ceremony yesterday. Mr Noble, who will retire next March after 28 years on the staff of the school, 20 of them as headmaster, said he wanted to say emphatically that the young people of today were as good as, or better, than they ever were. If there was one criticism that could be levelled against today’s young people it was that they did not know how to occupy their leisure time properly. They had incessant motor-car trips, saw inane movies, and listened to the perpetual wireless, he said. "As in the international sphere we lag behind in the personal adjustment to the mechanical -advances of the present,” said Mr Noble.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29384, 10 December 1960, Page 14
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