SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Southland Times, Issue 21089, 22 May 1930, Page 10

SECONDARY SCHOOLS

ANNUAL MEETING OF ASSOCIATION. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, May 21. Twenty-six delegates from all parts of New Zealand attended .the annual meeting of the Secondary Schools Association in Wellington to-day. Mention was made of the great difficulty which would be experienced by boarding schools if Sir Thomas Sidey’s scheme to alter the summer holidays so that they would extend into February and March and to reduce the Christmas and New Tear vacation to a few days was carried. Delegates interviewed the Assistant-Director of Education on the question, and it was iully discussed. Among other questions discussed was that of leaving certificates which was referred to the executive to deal with and to make definite representations with a view to helping the Department in finding a solution to the problems at present surrounding the award of these certificates. ■ The- following officers were elected for the ensuing three years: —President, the Rev. H. K. Archdall (Auckland); vice-president, Father Gilbert (Christchurch), secretary and treasurer, Mr Noel Gibson (Auckland) ; executive, Miss McColl (Marton), Miss Sandford (Auckland), the Rev. C. F. Pearce (Wanganui), Bro. Benignus (Auckland), Mr Loton (Te Aute), Ah' A. K. Anderson (Christchurch). The Rev. E. C. Crosse, of Christchurch, and Brother Benignus were appointed to represent the association on the University Entrance Board in accordance with the representation on that body given the association under the University Amendment Act of 1929.