HEADMASTER RESIGNS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18225, 19 October 1922, Page 6

HEADMASTER RESIGNS.

■';. MB. TV ■U. WELLS. ~:.: YEABS* SEByiQB The resignation of one off AdcWmnTs ' beat known and moat • popular ppjmaiy K»hpol headmasters,' Mr.« T. IJ. yrelKt aftpr .36 -years of service, was. received , 'fey the Education Board yesterday., .'.".- In announcing Kb intention of retsruft,";.-:>'•'■ on superannuation. Mr. Wells, ; who.{•»',. * charge of the Richmond Road School, . K-msonby, expressed regret at relinquishing a life-work, -which had always been;* pleasure. He would retain his intewpt. •m educational matters, however, sjjvL , would at all tiroes be ready to offer awia tance in any honorary opacity in which' , his services might he of use to thehoafit' The chairman, Mr. E. C. Banks, spoke | in.-' high terms of the work which •■ j Wells had done in connection with edo«>*>' . ] ■' tion, not. only in Auckland, hut-thibnKh' out New Zealand. He was known nob i only as a headmaster in Auckland, where. .';.':'. j his influence would be felt f r veys'ito, '//. come, but as a member of the- Council .-'-. of Education, of the University Collage,. '.-1 " Councils and of the New Zealand-EdHei* J > -, tional Institute. Special mention waS' •;, j made byMr. Banks of the good wo?fc 1; j done'by Mr. Wells durinc ihia recenix-y, i visit to America, as New Zealand's '• ' presentative at the Toronto Educational .' Conference. It was largely due to hi» ' ; sound judgment, energy faid eiWlfty* ,tfr*' - the high school system had-been «tah> ' '' lished, and his retirement would bs- * "* loss, not only to education inAuckland, : T I but to the Dominion generally. ', "-, \ Other members also paid a high iaribut* ; • to Mr. Wells' services arid influence as »;■;;; | teacher, and vto his good work in - the i " i cause of education. :J