HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18888, 22 December 1924, Page 8

HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL.

THE HEADMASTER'S REVIEW. [BX TELEGRAPH.—OWH COIUtESPONTIENT.]

HAMILTON. Saturday. The annual prize-giving ceremony in connection with the Hamilton High School took place yesterday afternoon. There was a very largo attendance of parents and friends. Mr. C. L. MacDiannid, chairman of the Board of Governors, presided. The principal. Mr. Wilson, said that 204 new pupils joined, at the beginning of the year. The minimum nttendai.ee during the first term wai, 413, while 384 were on the roll at'tho er.d of the vear. There were 15 teachers, on the staff. Mr. "Wilson referred to the fact, that owing to the small measure of support (riven it had been decided to discontinue the agricultural classes. Ue could not understand why these classes P.?" " ot oeen better supported in a town like Hamilton. Perhaps it was duo to tho fact that it was difficult to say what a boy s bent would be until ho was 16 or 17, while many farmers desired their sons to receive a classical education notwithstanding their intention to piace them on farms, icn pupils gained higher leaving certificates for post matriculation work, 2-1 boys and 19 girls had received complete or partial inatnjculatipti passes, four pupils hud been awarded senior national scholarships and three pupils junior national scholarship! Eighly-one received senior free places