40 YEARS’ SERVICE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17407, 4 November 1930, Page 3

40 YEARS’ SERVICE

CAUSE OF EDUCATION MR. A. M. BELL TO RETIRE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. The retirement at the end of next month of the Assistant Director of Education, Mr. A. M. Bell, is announced by the Public Service Commissioner. Mr. Bell has over 40 years’ service in the cause of education, and for the past 15 years has been in the Department of Education. As a student, Mr. Bell won many scholarships and distinctions. As a scholarship-holder he attended the Timaru High School, of which lie was dux. At Canterbury College he won the senior university scholarship in 1896, and followed this up the next year by gaining his M.A. degree with first-class honors in mathematics and mathematical physics. lie had 11 years’ experience in various schools as teacher, being headmaster of a large town school, from which he was appointed inspector at the age of 28. For over three years Mr. Bell acted in the dual capacity of secretary and inspector to the South Canterbury Education Board. In March, 1913, lie was selected for the position of joint secretary to the Southland Education Board and the Southland High School Board. He was transferred in 1915 to the Department of Education as officer in charge of inspectors and examinations. Fifteen years agio Mr. Bell became secretary of the department, and was appointed assistant-director in May, 1927.