PRIMARY SCHOOLS
THE CHIEF INSPECTOR MR. W. W. BIRD APPOINTED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The appointment is announced of Mr. William Watson Bird. M.A., at present Senior Inspector of Schools in the Wellington district, to the position of ('hi-fi Inspector of Primary Schools, in place of Mr. T. B. Strong, M.A., B.Sc., recently appointed Assistant-Director of Education. Mr. W. W. Bird is well known in this district, having been an inspector for the Hawke’s Buy Education Board from 1916 to 1923, when lie was transferred to Auckland and later appointed senior inspector at Wellington. Mr. Bird was born in Hampshire, England, in 1870. He came to New Zealand at an early age, and after passing through Otago University with honors joined the teactiing profession. For two years he was headmaster of Karori school, Wellington, and then was appointed organising teacher of native schools, and later senior inspector of native schools, leaving this position to join the Hawke’s Bay Education Board.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17165, 15 October 1926, Page 7
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162PRIMARY SCHOOLS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17165, 15 October 1926, Page 7
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