NEW HEADMASTER APPOINTED

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22514, 23 September 1938, Page 12

NEW HEADMASTER APPOINTED

Lyttelton District High School MR R. E. ADLAM, OF WAIPAWA Mr R. E. Adlam, at present headmaster of the Waipawa District High School, has been appointed headmaster of the Lyttelton District High School, filling the vacancy created by the appointment of Mr A. F. Barrell as headmaster of the Sydenham School. Mr Adlam was born at Oakura, Taranaki, and received his primary education at the Oakura School. He later attended the New Plymouth High School, and on leaving that school was appointed a pupil-teacher at the Inglewood School. In 1914, after serving two years as a pupil teacher, he entered the Wellington Training College; but, on the outbreak of war. joined the Fifth Wellington Regiment and left with the Advance Party for Samoa. On returning from Samoa, Mr Adlam was discharged as unfit and went back to the training college. Later he rejoined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force with the Eighteenth Reinforcements, and served with .the Third Auckland Regiment in France.

.-Returning to New Zealand in 1919, Mr Adlam again took up teaching, and resuming his studies, completed his- B.A. degree. He taught as assistant in the Taranaki district, - including some time in the secondary department of the Stratford District High School. Appointments as headmaster at various schools, in Taranaki and Hawke’s Bay followed, and Mr Adlam was then appointed as assistant master at the Rongotai College, Wellington, which position hfe held for three years. His next appointment was as headmaster of the Awapuni School, where he remained for three years until appointed headmaster of the Waipawa District High School about two and a half years ago.