HEADMASTER RESIGNS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 182, 3 July 1936, Page 9

HEADMASTER RESIGNS.

COLLEGE STREET SCHOOL. Advice that, acting under his doctor's orders, he had forwarded to the Wanganui Education Board his resignation from the headmastership of the school as from August 14 was received by the College Street School Committee, last evening, from Mr W. A. Swinbourn, who has been seriously ill for some months. “I have done this with a great deal of regret,” wrote Mr “for mv association with the College Street School for the past twelve years has been a verv happy one, as indeed has been the whole 41 years of my teaching experience. . . , “I shall miss the association with the teachers and children of the school, and with the members of the committee very much. I wish the school and the committee every good thing in the future.” Regret at the resignation of Mr Swinbourn was expressed by the chairman (Colonel J. H. Whyte). Mr W. F. Cutler said the headmaster had worked hard, and he suggested that some valedictory function in his honour be arranged at a future date tin his motion a sub-committee was appointed to confer with the teachers a !,d representatives of the ladies’ committee Concerning some suitable means -if recognising Hr Swinbourn s ser-