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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17949, 29 November 1932, Page 9

Visits to farms in various parts of the district are now an important part of the work of the agricultural class at Wairarapa High School. An elderly man, believed to be All - Gordon Donald Mackay, a farmer, of Ruawai, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Sunday afternoon with head Injuries. Ho was discovered by a passing motorist on the roadside.

Mr. R. Griffiths, of Arawa House, Rotorua, who is a keen horticulturist, lias grown an exceptionally fine specimen of sweet pea. The species is known as Doby’s Cream, and it carries no fewer than seven blossoms on one stalk.

Reference to the unsatisfactory methods adopted in tho education system of New Zealand in order to give grading to teachers was made by Mi. 11. J. Chapman at the Ashburton East School Committee meeting recently, when he handed in his resignation, states the Guardian. Mo said that unless a teacher changed from one school to another lie would never make progress so far as his grading was concerned, hut this was anything but helpful to the schools and the pupils. Especially was this so with headmasters, who seldom stopped long at one school before they were away to another. They had just settled'down to the organisation of the school when they were uprooted arid a new system was brought in by the new man. However, it was iu the interests of Itho teachers/ to change and increase their grading, because it affected their retiring allowance under superannuation, the figure being set according to the salary paid at the time of retirement.