WAIKATO DIOCESAN SCHOOL

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1927, Page 9

WAIKATO DIOCESAN SCHOOL

OPENING AFTER CHRISTMAS. (By Wire —Special to News.) Hamilton, Last Night. The announcement made a short time ago that a diocesan school for girls would be opened at Hamilton next year has been confirmed by the Waikato Diocesan Board, which has authorised the secretary (the Rev. F. G. Harvie, M.A.), to make the following statement:— “Steps are being taken to secure a suitable site for the school with sufficient ground for playing fields as well as for all buildings necessary for a firstclass primary and secondary school for boarders and day, pupils. “It* will necessarily be some little time beffirc this plan can be completely carried out and, in the meantime, the diocesan authorities are making arrangements to take a short lease of Sonning School, Hamilton, which will be the temporary quarters of the new school, and they will proceed with the acquisition of their own site and the erection of their own permanent school buildings without delay. “The diocese has been most fortunate in securing the appointment of Miss Eva Necker as headmistress. This lady, who is at present in temporary charge of Ngatajva School, Marton, is well known in educational circles throughout the Dominion, and her appointment as headmistress of the new diocesan school m its temporary quarters at Sonning is a guarantee both of the high standard of efficiency at which it is intended to keep the school and of the support which the school will receive from the publie. "Sonning, therefore, will remain after the next Christmas recess, as the Diocesan Girls’ School, with Miss Necker as headmistress, until such time as it can move into new premises of its own. A prospectus is being prepared and will be obtainable very shortly at the diocesan office.”