WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17606, 23 October 1931, Page 10

WAIROA NEWS

: : : (I-lerald Correspondent.) Eh route from Napier to Gisborne Hie 'Director of Education, Mr. T. B. Strong, 1 visited the W;t iroa■ district high school on Wednesday afternoon, whim lie inspected Hie school and its surroundings. Satisfaction was ex pressed at what came under the notice director. The headmaster was congratulated on Hie pleasing surroundings of Hie school, and the director was moved to congratulate the people of the district’ and of j Hawke’s Rav on the \ wonderful • climate. Whilst, other parts of New Zealand were experiencing wintry conditions, these favored districts were I revelling in tlu< glories of summer. ■Opportunity was taken by Mr. Strong j to. address the pupils of.’both depart- ’ meats. All were exhorted to make I the most of their time at school and 'to live that they might he worthy of the best traditions of New Zealanders, The director dwelt upon the wonderful progress made since the inception of the first district high school. The secondary schools had every provision made for .their welfare, and in this respect the Dominion led the .Motherland. New Zen Inn dors had every reason to bo proud of. their educational institutions and their splendid records. ■The director then left for Gisborne at the close of the afternoon school session. Apropos" of the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the Bank of New Zealand, i ( may not be out. of place to recall the modest’ start made by the Wniro'n branch. was' first, establish'd at the Clyde Hotel, a very unproten-

ions structure, the first'manager bo'ng Mr. Christopher Maclean;-a son-in-'aw of the then Bishop Williams. The uze of the bank premises may be ranged by the fact that when the safe irrived by one of the trading boats it bad to be stowed on the verandah, being too large for any of the doors ir windows of tho hotel. It stood on the verandah for years, and it says much for the honesty of old Wairoa- • tea that no attempt; to burgle it was 'vormade. Later it was housed in t> small lean-to in the west end of the late Miss Pow.droll’s residence in Marine Parade, which building escaped destruction on January 3,1909. 1