Students To Serve In Pacific

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30632, 24 December 1964, Page 3

Students To Serve In Pacific

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 23. Three Christchurch sixth-formers from left, Peter Adams (Christ’s College), Coral Dodds (Christchurch Girls’ High School) and Philip Hagne (Shirley Boys’ High School) are among 12 chosen by the Volunteer Service Abroad to work overseas next year. All are going to Pacific countries.

This makes a total of 24 New Zealand school-leavers who will be helping in the education or land-settlement programmes of developing countries in 1965. Those going to the Pacific are: Western Samoa: Barbara Church (Queen’s High School, Dunedin), Rosalyn Hands (James Hargest Memorial High School, Invercargill), Andrew Bray (Timaru Boys’ High School), Wendell Evans (Timaru Boys* High

School), Philip Hague, Cluny MacPherson (St. Kentigern College, Auckland), Richard Poor (St. Joseph’s College, Masterton), and Stefan Zielonka (St Patrick’s College, Wellington). The British Solomon Islands: Coral Dodds, Peter Adams, Keith Alexander (Auckland Grammar School).

The New Hebrides: Ross Polson (Waimate High School). Six of the 12 will work in State schools, helping with teaching at form two or form three level. The other six will work in state-approved mission schools: Anglican, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic and Methodist. Some of last year’s schoolleaver volunteers, newly returned home, will help in the

briefing of outgoing parties before they leave by air next month.