MR MILNER A “GREAT HEADMASTER”

Southland Times, Issue 25548, 16 December 1944, Page 5

MR MILNER A “GREAT HEADMASTER”

Appreciation Expressed In The Times (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 14. The Secretary of State for India, Mr L. S. Amery, M.P., writing to The Times in appreciation of the late Mr Frank Milner, rector of the Waitaki Boys’ High School, said: "The influence of a great headmaster on the life of a nation can be far more potent and more enduring than any but the greatest statesmen. Mr Milner was doubtless within that category. He had the rare gift of interesting boys in the world and in the part they and New Zealand could and should play in it. “An ardent New Zealand patriot and a passionate believer in the British Empire, his outlook was never isolationist, said Mr Amery. “All countries and all examples of human greatness were to

him essential subjects for study, sympathy and inspiration. To him Waitaki was to be the ideal school, where, in Milton’s words, young men ‘should be stirred with the high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear Godward.’ Old Waitaki boys, and even those who had merely visited the school, know that in a substantial measure he achieved his dream