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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1682, 25 May 1904, Page 23

Some persons appear to hold peculiar views as to the qualifications necessary for the head-teacher of a school. Professor Maclaurin says that when he and the other members of the committee appointed to select a director for the 'Wellington Technical School met in London for this task, one candidate whose application came before them .set out as his chief qualification for the position that he was almost a teetotaller. Another man. probably as a setoff, carefully mentioned that he had a brother, or cousin, or other relative, who kept a first-class hotel in one of the' colonies. A third candidate submitted a testimonial to the meiits, not of himself, but of his father who, it was shown, was a market gardener, and lived in an excellent house. The headmaster of one of the largest of the city’s public schools states that so great is the demand among employers for boys in Wellington that the supply fails to meet it. A great number of lads leave school directly they have passed the Fifth Standard to go to work. Requests for hoys come to headmasters of schools at a rate that cannot he satisfied