NELSON NEWS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21415, 6 March 1935, Page 18

NELSON NEWS

NEW MASTER TO COLLEGE DISTINGUISHED CAREER (SPECIAL TO TBX PRESS.) NELSON, Mar Ch , MrW. A.C. Smith, mWSJL on the staff of Wellington CoUeW? been appointed mathematics Nelson College. .^7** .=- M .£., is an ol d boy O fV Southland Boys' High School »v tt * he won the Descheler sport. He obtained his deaL H Otago University and has • at cSge mgh schoo1 ' ma * Mr Smith will fill the vara* caused by the transfer of D^m? Campbell to the staff of Victoria Urn' versity College. ura * Meeting of College Council In her report to the monthly mr* Ing of the Nelson College cXft Governors, tne principal of the fifrw College. Miss J. Stewart, stated t£S tne roll was 420, compared with %i last year. °r« A donation of 100 books for n. school library had been received fw*! Mrs D Strachan. The nrincbai °% Nelson College reported that the ™n was 497, comoared with 457. Boardm numbered 146, which was an increase Rugby Fnlon Meeting At the meeting of the Nelson Rugby Union last evening reference was mZ. by the president, Mi R. J. Eyre, to thi recent death of the president of ft* New Zealand Union. Mr Eyre com mented on Dr. McEvedy's Rugby both in England and in New Zealand, and said that he was an English international of long standing having toured the Dominion with the English teams in 1904 and 1908. A motion of sympathy - with the relatives was carried, with members standin* as a mark of respect. Personal Dr. Washbourn who has been te Dunedin attending the medical conference, has returned to Nelson. Mrs Charles Milner left last' evening for Auckland to attend a meeting of the Ex-Service Women's Association, of which she is a member. A large meeting is being held to say goodbye to Lady Bledisloe. Mr R. W. Arter, of Wellington, has been appointed shorthand and typewriting master at the Technical School by the Nelson College Council of Governors. Mr Arter has now taken over his new duties.