AUCKLAND DIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19762, 13 April 1926, Page 13

AUCKLAND DIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOL.

NEW HEAD MISTRESS. MISS E. H. SANDFORD’S CAREER. CFbom Ocb Own Cobbesponobnt.) LONDON, February 26. Miss E. H. Sandford, who has been appointed head mistress of the Girls' Diocesan High School, Auckland, will relinquish her pieaent position at the Netting Hill Girls' High School in July, and will probably take up her new duties in the Dominion at the beginning of next year. Miss Sandford was educated at the Exeter High School, the Queen’s School, Chester, and then went to Girton College, Cambridge. Here she obtained honours in the Classical Tripos. While at Girton she was captain of the Hockey Club and obtained her “blue” in this branch of sport. Cambridge does not yet confer full degrees upon women students, but Miss Sandford has the equivalent of a M.A., of Cambridge. She also has the actual degree of B.A. of Dublin University. After her university training Miss Sandford returned to Devonshire and joined the staff of the Exeter High School. Subsequently she was on the staff of the Southland School, Exmouth. In 1923 she took up an appointment at the Netting Hill Girls’ High School and became second mistress and deputy head mistress. This school is one of the oldest foundations by the Girls’ Private Day School Trust, and probably the best known of this type. Training goes not only up to the matriculation standard, but two years of advanced work is given after matriculation in preparation for the university. Miss Sandford belongs to a well-known old Shropshire family. Her father was Archdeacon at Exeter for 30 years, and there did good work in the cause of education. He was a famous Rugbeian, distinguishing himself in the cricket world. He was a friend of Archbishop Temple and edited the latter’s memoirs. Miss SandfoiS is one of, a family of nine (two girls and seven boys). Two of her brothers were in the Zebrugge raid. The younger was in command of Submarine C 3 which blew up the viaduct. For his part in the night’s work he obtained the V.C. Captain Francis H. Sandford, D. 5.0., who died only a fortnight ago, was commander in H.M.S. Repulse when this ship visited New Zealand with the Special Squadron in 1924. Another brother is a house master at Marlborough College, two have been in the Sudan Civil Service, and another is Native Commissioner in Rhodesia.