NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12392, 11 March 1926, Page 4

NOTES FOR WOMEN

NEW APPOINTMENT TO WELLINGTON GIRLS’ COLLEGE MISS GREIG PRINCIPAL A New Zealander has been ajipointed to the position of principal of the Wei- | lington Girls’ College to succeed Miss McLean, M.A., who retires on June i Ist next. This is Miss M. Greig, M.A.'., j B.Se., headmistress of the Girls’ High i School, Napier. . ; Miss Greig is an old pupil of the j Otago Girls’ High School, which she at- , tended between 1890 and 1895, enter; with a Junior Education Board Schol- ; arship. She left as Dux, having gained the Board of Governors’ gold medal. Between 1896 and 1899 she studied at Otago U diversity for the degree of B.A. and M.A. honours, and in 1898 Tot her B.A degree and' the John Tinlne scholarship, which was aw,a riled for excellence in English language and literature in the B.A> examination. In 1899 she graduated M.A. with secondclass honours in English and Latin, and in Latin gained first place for the Dominion. She later graduated B.Sc. Between 1896 and 1899 she was in the Dunedin Training College under Professor D. R. White, M.A., and the late , Dr. J. R. Don, M.A., and at the end of her first year passed the class D. examination for teachers, gaining the first prize for experimental science for New Zealand, and adding School Management and the Art of Teaching to her other subjects. In 1897 she taught in the various primary schools in Dunedin, and three years later, on the appointment of Miss McLean to the Wellington Girls’ College, she was appointed locum tenens first assistant at the Ti-, maru Girls’ High School In February, 1901, she was appointed first assistant at the Waitaki Girls’ High School, where she remained till 1909. In 1908 she acted as head while Miss C. Ferguson was on leave in England. All the candidates for public service, matriculation. and scholarships at the Waitaki Girls’ High School passed their examinations that year. In December. 1909, Miss Greig was appointed headmistress of the Napier Girls’ High School, where for the past sixteen years she has had experience in primary, secondary, and _ residential work. In her time the primary school there grew from 1 18 to 60 pupils, the High School grew from 69 to nearly 250 pupils, and the House from 17 to 70 pupils. The school examination record was high, 80 per cent, of passes being registered, and for several years past 100 per cent, of passes have been registered in the matriculation class. During 1918-19 she was granted a year’s leave of absence, and she visited schools and colleges hi U.S.A. and Canada, and spent nearly three months in -Britain. She travelled part of the time in America with Miss McLean. Miss Greig' holds the New Zealand Education Department's AI certificate, which was the highest award given to teachers before the new grading scheme was brought into operation. Miss Greig is interested in all phases of school work. In addition she takes an interest in other activities, arid is a vice-president of the Hawke’s BayNavy League,. of the Girl Guides’ Association, of the Hawke’s Bay Educational Association, a member of the Hawke’s Bay Tennis Club, the Golf Club, the Choral Society, and is on tlio committee of the Napier Horticultural Society. . . . , Q is expected--she will take up her new duties in June.

WOMEN SCHOOL INSPECTORS For a vfery long time tho New Zealand Women Teachers’ Association has been pressing theneducation authorities to appoint women -to the schools inspectorate. A remit to that effect has been brought to the annual conference for many years. It is particularly pleasing to tho a#ociation therefore that a woman should have been appointed inspector of secondary schools, and even more so to the Wellington Association that the woman appointed should be Miss J. Heiherington, who was president of the local association a ( few years ago when she was on the staff of the Training College. There are now two women on the inspectorate of the secondary schools, for Miss Dyer was appointed some two years ago an inspector of domestic science. The two women inspectors will find an added interest in their work in that they first met .at Girton when both were graduates there, and are now to be associated in work once more. Miss Hetherington will receive many congratulations on her appointment from women's organisations with which she has been connected. She commences her new duties next .week, and leaves on Saturday for Christchurch.

DIAMOND WEDDING Tins diamond wedding of Mr and Mrs diaries Williamson was. celebrated on Monday at their home, Belmont, Takapuna, by a ”ery laige gathering of the family and old friends. Members of their family present were: Messrs C. R. Williamson, F. H. Williamson, J W. Williamson and A. BWilliamson (of Vancouver), Mrs Warren Blyth and Mrs Harold Matthewroan. . Among the guests were Sir Henry Brett and Lady Brett, at whose wedding in 1864 Mr Williamson was best man, and Mrs then Miss' L. A. Hampton) was bridesmaid, and also Mrs Alfred Porter, who was r»re* sent on the same occasion, as- well as at tho wedding of Mr and Mrs "Williamson in 1866, and Mrs James McKerraa, who was a flower-girl at the nuptials of GO years ago. The member. of the younger Williamson generations present numbered 10 s grand*, ‘children and six great-grandchildren. Mr and Mrs Williamson can look back trpon the development of Auckland from an early 6tage of its history. Their residence at Belmont dates from November, 1882. Mr Williamson arrived in the Wnitemata from England in Small, having come out to join the staff of the “Daily Southern Cross,” one of the nawspaners now incomorate.d in the /‘New Zealand Herald,” so that he ranks as a senior among the veteran journalists of tho Dominion. Mr.' 1 'Williamson had come from London with her parents, Mr and Mrs Robert Hnmnton. by tho ship Gypsy. Captain Allan Bolton, landing bn November .■sth. 1854.

The wedding took plac° on March Bth, 1866, iu original St. PruT* Church, whirh stood at. ibe foot of Prince’ft street, on the uromonlory long since rut away, which ran out to ehouT/ the nresent site of the Farmers' Freezing .Cctmminv's works. wHh Fort Britomart at itr, end. The officiating minister was Arch lane on .Tohn eric Lloyd, then incumbent of St. Paul's.