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Waikato Independent, Volume XLIII, Issue 3948, 28 January 1944, Page 3

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ON TUESDAY NEXT

ANNUAL HOLIDAYS ENDING

On Tuesday next the school beds in this district and throughout the Dominion will ring out again and another annual holiday will be at an end. Whatever the affect upon primary production the long dry spell has certainly given the children a maximum of sunshine and on Tuesday morning they will come by devious ways to their respective schools well tanned by the many weeks of holidays, most of which, have, no doubt, been spent in the healthful open air. With many of the older children it has not been J all play, by any means. On the farms they have given their assistance in the hayfields and in other ways, while many town boys and girls have had their "jobs" to do, and more than ever has juvenile assistance been appreciated. On Tuesday both the town primary and secondary schools will reopen. On Monday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, the headmaster, Mr T. Kane, will be at the primary school, to meet parents and enrol pupils. Secondary Dept.

It is antiripated that there will be a record roll at the Secondary Dept. this year.

There will be several staff changes. Miss C. Dclaney, infantmistress, has been appointed :to Otahuhu; but so far the new appointment for Cambridge has not been announced.

Mrs Cummings, last year's teacher of Std. V. has left and here again no definite appointment has been made. In the secondary department, Mrs F. Jane has also left and here again her replacement is not yet available.

The school will commence ( its new year with temporary teachers and new probationers will be Miss O'Loughlin, daughter of Mr s O'Loughlin, of the Roto-o-rangi School, and Miss Mahon, a probationer from Te Awamutu.

ft has now been arranged that the services of Mr J. H. Yolland will be retained at the Secondary Dept. It will be remembered that it was intended to transfer Mr Yolland so as to enable another former teacher from the Army to return to the school. > Kindergarten Day School. In an advertisement herein, Miss A. C. Armstrong announces that her kindergarten day school will reopen for the first term of 1944 on Tuesday, February 8, and parents intending to send their "threc-lo-iives" would be well advised to 'phone 124, or, if this is not possible to bring the children along on the opening day.