New School Inspectors Appointed For Canty.

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30980, 9 February 1966, Page 19

New School Inspectors Appointed For Canty.

New appointments have I made substantial changes in Mr H w Findlay. e c ß* st 7 ct Senior Inspector! of Schools for the Education Department in the CanterEducation Board’s area. Mr G. McFadzien, an inspector based on Christchurch for six years, has been promoted to senior inspector. Recently he was responsible for training and certification of probationary assistants. He will s “P®™ se all schools Christchurch and on the West Coast. Mr N. G. Leckie, an inspector m Southland for four years has arrived and will also be a senior inspector He will supervise schools south of Christchurch. Previously his teaching was chiefly in Southland. He was formerly! on the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Educational I Institute. Mr B. J, Wilson will con-| tmue as senior inspector supervising Christchurch, schools and working in liaison with the Education Board New inspectors who have -••eontly taken up Christchurch appointments are:— Mr R. M. Brooke, formerly on the foundation staff of the Elmwood Normal School and later head at Hanmer Springs, who has been an inspector in Nelson for five years. There he was a foundation member of the Repertory Society and Garrick Theatre. Mr B. K. Gainsford, recently head of the Waltham School, was educated at Oxford, Wharenui and Christchurch Boys’ High School and graduated from the Canterbury University College. He was in the Christchurch Harmonic Society choir that visited Britain and a member of the Christchurch committee of the Educational Institute.

Mr S. F. B. Simpson, an old boy of the Christchurch Boys’ High School who graduated in history in Canterbury, served in the Air Force in New Zealand and the Pacific. After teaching in Canterbury he moved to Taranaki and the Central King Country and until recently was head of the Ohura District High School. Mr W. A Menzies, trained in Dunedin, had military service overseas, taught in Canterbury, Otago, and Nelson, and visited England on exchange in 1959. He was at the Corstophine in Dunedin in 1962-63. an Otago acting inspector in 1964, and at Somerfield last year.