ANGLICAN SCHOOL
Appointment Of Principal
Mr D. J. Finch has been appointed headmaster at Victory Memorial School, an Anglican primary school attached to St. Matthew’s parish, St. Albans.
Mr Finch, who succeeds Mr G. J, Langrell, will take up his duties at the beginning of the second term this year. The present acting-headmas-ter, Mr K. N. Larkin, has been appointed first assistant.
Mr Finch, who is at present on the staff of Tokoroa Intermediate School, came to
New Zealand in January, 1964, from Southern Rhodesia. Trained at Cheltenham, England, Mr Finch has had wide experience of practical education. He worked in both primary and secondary schools in England, before taking up an appointment with the Southern Rhodesian Department of European Education in 1953.
For two years, before leaving Southern Rhodesia, Mr Finch was headmaster of a school of 260 pupils at Wankie, a colliery town situated 70 miles from Victoria Falls. Mr Finch served with the British forces in India and Burma between 1943 and 1946. He has wide sporting and cultural interests.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30688, 2 March 1965, Page 14
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