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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1930, Page 8

“There has been much praise recently of the new junior high school system,” said the Rev. S. Parr, headmaster of the Cathedral Grammar School, Christchurch, at the prize-giving ceremony. ‘lt has been hailed as a great discovery and a great benefit, but actually the system has been carried out in private schools for years. English public schools and private schools in New Zealand ha\e always i-ecognised the benefits to be derived from preparing boys for a secondary education by preliminary tuition in such subjects as languages and science. “The average parent takes these term reports too seriously,” said the headmaster, Mr. J. D. Sutcliffe, at the breakingup ceremony at Scots College, Wellington. “It is impossible to sum up the capabilities and characteristics of your son in the small space of a term report form, and in any case his success as a citizen cannot be judged absolutely by his success in the classroom. Take any half-dozen of the most respected and in-. fluential citizens and ask them what position in the class they o raced at school. You will probably find they were not always top, or near the top. Expressing surprise at the large proportion of motor-cars of foreign origin seen in Wellington streets, Colonel Frank b'carle, C.8.E., D. 5.0., managing director of the Rover Company, Coventry, who is. at present in New Zealand, told a reporter of the Dominion that it seemed to him that the cause was principally economic, and not one of sentiment? People, when buying a car, looked for three things—appearance,' perform? anee, and price. Until recently the British manufacturer had been able to satisfy the first two requirements, but not the last.