Retirement of Mr. W. C. Hodgson.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 43, 24 June 1890, Page 2

Retirement of Mr. W. C. Hodgson.

The intimation that Mr Hodgson will sever his 'connection with the Marlborough Education Board next September will be heard with regret by the public at large, and especially by the teaching profession and scholars who knew him best. It has been evident for some time that the duties of Inspector for the combined districts of Nelson and Marlborough with their increasing population and multiplication of schools were more onerous than could longer be performed by one man. The duty of inspecting and examining schools, though the most important, are not the only duties an Inspector has to perform. The supervision of examinations for teachers, pupil-teachers, scholarships and pro-

bationers, coupled with the compiling of the papers, &c, is no mean task. The opportunity lately offered by a change in the secretarial office of the Marlborough Education Board has no doubt induced Mr Hodgson to resign at the pretent time—it will leave the Board's hands perfectly free, and they will act wisely in amalgamating the offices of Inspector and Secretary, and for a fairly decent salary they will easily obtain a competent man to fill the dual, position, and we also trust such a man will be chosen from the ranks of teachers—men skilled in the working of the elementary school system. We trust that the same amicable relations that have existed so long between teacher and inspector under Mr Hodgson's regime may long continue, and- that Mr Hodgson may long be spared to carry on his work of usefulness in Nelson. Teachers in Marlborough should long remember the genial, wholesome, and upright example of their old Inspector.