WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOLS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26226, 9 August 1946, Page 3

WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOLS

MEETING OF BOARD Mr W. Kinder presided at the monthly meeting of the Waitaki High Schools Board yesterday afternoon, and also present were Messrs W, M. Cooper, J. C. Kirkness, J. Rodman, A. Marshall, R. W. Hill, and the secretary (Mr D. V. G. Smith).

The resignation of Mr G. J. Sceats, head of the intermediate departr/.ent, was accepted with regret. Mr Kinder was re-elected chairman of the beard for the ensuing year. The offer of Mr C. Meldrum (Dunedin) to grant an annual prize for presentation to the pupil in the boys’ school who did the most to advance music in the school was accepted. Mr Meldrum’s father, Mr R. J. Meldrum, had been a music teacher at the school.

Principals’ Reports The principal of the girls' school (Miss J. B. Wilson) reported that all forms, with the exception of the Third Form, had completed examinations, and reports had been forwarded to parents. Delay in completing, the Third Form reports had been caused by two mistresses being absent on sick leave.

The annual speech competitions for Third, Fourth, and Lower Fifth Forms were held on Wednesday, the Rev. L. W. Rothwell acting as judge. The results were as follows Third Forms (subject, "A book I should recommend you to read ”): Peggy Robertson 1, Vivienne Butler 2. Fourth Forms (subject, " The war memorial I should like to advocate”): Marie McDiarmid 1, Sonia Woodward 2. Lower Fifth Forms (subject, “ The address of an underground patriot to his fellow countrymen under Nazi dominatino”): Audrey Lory 1, Betty Familton 2. Mrs Malcolm Holmes had presented to the school a valuable collection of gramophone records for use in music appreciation classes. There were several hundred records covering a wide range of musical composition. The rector of the boys' school (Mr J. T. Burrows), in his report, referred to the resignation of Mr Sceats, who, he said, had been at the school for 12 years, and during that time had given loyal service. Messrs J. L. Cameron and S. M. Kinross were at present at the school in connection with the award of leaving certificates and the grading of teachers. Six old boys of the school—Messrs K. W. Gemmell, K. Faloon, H. W. Turvey, L. R. Webo, K. G. H. Grant, and A. A. Lewthwaite—had been mentioned in despatches, for gallant war service.