FAREWELL TO HEADMASTER

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 56, 30 November 1923, Page 7

FAREWELL TO HEADMASTER

NORTHLAND RESIDENTS SHOW APPRECIATION. Appreciation of the services of Mr. D M. Polson, headmaster of the Northland School, who has been attached to the institution since its erection 17 years ago, was expressed by s large gathering of residents who assembled at St. Anne’s Hall last night. There were about 150 present, among whom were Sir John Luke, an “ Lady Luke. Mrs. Polson, Mr. O J. Howarth (the new headmaster) and Mrs. Howarth. Mr. C. H- NichoUs (president of the Northland School Committee) presided. In presenting Mr. Polson with, a handsome gold Rotheram watch, suitably engraved, Mr. Nicholls said that Mr Polson, who fortunately was not going further away than Karori, had become the third parent to the children of the district. He had proved equal to the task of training many different dispositions. He was a teacher who believed in the physical as well as the mental well-being of his pupd, and always had endeavoured to mcuLcate a spirit of loyalty into b One would go very far indeed to find a man possessed of so many hum qualities as their headmaster, and it seemed regrettable that he 3 ad tO j®j out of the district m wlutli he had remained for 17 years, in order to ee Sir r j™hn°Luke expressed his warm appreciation of the services, rendered by Mr. Polson, who, he said, was a man of considerable character ; : not nsn opportunist or an extremist, but the ideal headmaster. , Mr F. W. Manton (president of the Northland Progressive Association) and Mr. Howarth also spoke m appreciative terms of Mr. Polson and numerous letters were received from infiu ential citizens congratulating him on hl In P r^?Y, lo Slr. Polson said he had spent & most happy time in the district and what he had done reflected perhaps more on the “any & of the parents and the spWdid children than himself. The teachers had worked amicably and... Mrs. Polson was presented with « beautiful bouquet. provided A musical programme was provided by Mrs. Willis, Mrs. Whitehorn. Miss Jones, and Messrs. Andrews Batchy lor Cooke, Cawin, Moore, Smith, an interesting lantern lecture was give by Mr. Alderson.