NEW HEADMASTER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23504, 19 May 1938, Page 11

NEW HEADMASTER

CHURCH SCHOOL AT MELBOURNE NEW ZEALANDER APPOINTED MELBOURNE, May 18. (Received May 18, at 11.35 p.m.) Mr Joseph Richard Sutcliffe, headmaster of Scots College, Wellington, has been appointed headmaster of the Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne, in succession to Mr D. S: Colman, of England, whose health has compelled his retirement after a year of office. Mr Sutcliffe, who is at present in Melbourne, is returning to New Zealand shortly before taking up his duties at the beginning of the third term in August. Mr Sutcliffe was born at Bulls, New Zealand, in 1897, and was educated at Palmerston North High School, where he was a medallist and was awarded a university bursary. At Victoria College he took the degree of Bachelor of Science. Mr Sutcliffe is an executive member of the Association of Heads of Registered Secondary Schools of New Zealand, and a member of the University Entrance Board. He was an assistant master at Wanganui Collegiate School and first assistant master at Wellesley Boys' College, Wellington. He has been head of Scots College for eight years. • Mr Sutcliffe is the second New Zealander to be appointed to an important church school in Melbourne during recent years. The other is Mr Colin Gilray, of Dunedin, who became head of Scotch College.