NEW PRINCIPAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 74, 24 February 1938, Page 2

NEW PRINCIPAL.

WELLINGTON GIRLS’ COLLEGE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 13. Miss E. M. North has been appointed the principal of the Wellington Girls’ College in succession to Miss V. M. Greig, who has retired and will be relinquishing the position at the end of March. Miss North is at present on the staff of the Wellington East Girls’ College. ' Miss North is a former pupil of the Wellington Girls’ College. She was chosen from thirteen applicants. She graduated B.A. at Victoria College, and in 1921 was awarded one of the University passages to Europe to enable her to do post-graduate work in overseas countries. She greatly added to her experience in schools in Britain and on the Continent. She spent two years at Sorbonne University, her return to New Zealand Miss North joined the staff of Wellington College and afterwards went to Wellington East Girls’ College. In 1927 she was on the staff of the Aschani Girls’ College, Sydney; in 1928 at the Girls’ High School, New Plymouth; in 1929 at the Girls’ College, Wanganui; in 1930, first assistant at the Girls College,’Nelson; in 1931, she was again in Europe, and in 1932 was for a time first-assistant at the Girls’ High at Palmerston North. Since then she has been senior French mistress at Wellington East. She is a vice-president of the National Federation of University Women and president in Wellington of the National Council of Women.