NGATA MEMORIAL COLLEGE

Te Ao Hou, April 1958, Page 21

NGATA MEMORIAL COLLEGE The name of the Manutahi Main District High School (Ruatoria) is to be changed to “Ngata Memorial College.” A recommendation to this effect has been made to the Minister of Education following the decision of residents to change the status of the school to full post-primary status. The proposals for a change of status were unanimously adopted at a public meeting of householders and parents in the Uepohatu Hall, Ruatoria. The present school was established in 1941 and with more and more children seeking academic education a full scale college catering for all courses will be needed. The Hawkes Bay Education Board will run the school for three years until it is well established following a majority decision of the people present at the meeting. A Committee of Management will be formed for the three-year period, the Committee to comprise one member nominated by the Board, one member nominated by the Waiapu County Council and five or seven members elected by the parents. After three years, control will go to a local board of governors. Future students of Ngata Memorial College will have much to emulate in the name of the man whose family name will be part of the College. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ The new president of the Methodist Church of New Zealand is the Rev. Dr Raymond Dudley, an Indian born in Fiji. ‘As an Indian I am father of Maori and European alike’, said Dr Dudley at a gathering at Taipohohenui (near Hawera) recently.