To Teach In New Hebrides

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30947, 31 December 1965, Page 2

To Teach In New Hebrides

When Miss Susan Scott, of Pages road, goes to the New Hebrides next month under Voluntary Service Abroad, she will teach in a mission school at Malekula for 11 months. Her pupils will be Melanesians —most in standard five and a few in standard six.

Miss Scott, aged 19, has been deeply interested in the peoples of the Pacific since she started archaeology as a young schoolgirl, an interest that grew when she was in New Caledonia with her parents, Mr and Mrs W. H. Scott, last year. "The Pacific is an interest we share in our family,” she said yesterday. While at Malekula she also hopes to use a snorkle, unless there are too many sharks and poisonous fish, around, and to gather folk songs of the islands.

At Malekula, Miss Scott will live on the Presbyterian Mission Station, which also runs the school.

A prefect at Linwood High School for the last two years, she has represented her school at hockey and athletics and is a keen swimmer. She teaches at St. John’s Sunday School, Woolston, and takes part in church activities. Having already qualified for University Entrance, she plans to enrol at the University of Canterbury when she returns home and expects to study oceanology.