Pupils Graduate In A.A. Driving Course

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31835, 13 November 1968, Page 16

Pupils Graduate In A.A. Driving Course

The Automobile Association (Canterbury) had been able to demonstrate to high-school principals that driving instruction, at least on a limited scale, could be included in the school curriculum without adversely affecfing academic progress, the general manager (Mr E. S. Palliser) said yesterday at the conclusion of the association’s fourth course in highschool driver education.

“We now know of at least one high school in Christchurch, Shirley Boys’ High School, where the principal is striving, with our full encouragement, to find ways and means of introducing driver education into his school curriculum next year,” Mr Palliser said. “Like ourselves and many other motoring organisations throughout the world, notably the Automobile Clubs of North America, he is convinced that motoring is so much part of our everyday life that it is rather futile to educate young people and make them fit in mind and body without teaching them at the same time how to survive on the roads which they will use so much.

“If this high school is able to show the way we feel that others may" follow,” he said. Mr Palliser said the latest course conducted by the association in conjunction with the Transport Department resulted in the graduation of ail 25 pupils, maintaining a 100 per cent pass rate over all courses. The achievement reflected great credit on the instructors and the pupils. Certificates were presented by the chairman of the association (Mr J. R Maling) to the successful pupils as follows:

Paul Leach (highest marks), Jacqueline Belcher Marianne Belcher, Murray

Blair and Gerald Roberts (Hagley High School): Nigel Anderson, John Barrer, Jeremy Cook, Michael FieldDodgson and John Montgomery (Christ's College): Russell Chambers, lan Hancock, Kama Eng, Gail Norton and Christine Palmer (Hillmorton High School); Jeremy Bliss, Heather Brookes. Susan Hancock, Rosmarie Hay and David Round (Linwood High School): Karyn Gibb, Catherine Huggins, Olwyn O'Carroll. Theresa Perham and Anne Rickman (Villa Maria College).