N.Z. College In Sarawak

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 10

N.Z. College In Sarawak

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON March 6. The Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) said that with the building of a teachers’ training college, New Zealand had made a major contribution to educational development in Sarawak.

He was commenting on the recent opening of Rejang College, a primary teachers’ training college which New Zealand had built under the Colombo Plan.

Rejang College, which cost £lBO,OOO to build, opened last month with three New Zealanders on the staff. The principal (Mr K. J. M. Hayr), formerly the Ardmore

Teachers’ College principal, has been in Sarawak since October overseeing construction, organising administration and devising timetables. He was joined in January by Mr P. H. Anaru, formerly of Rotorua Intermediate School, and Mr A. K. B. McLean from Tawa College. Mr Holyoake said they were to share lecturing duties in English, social studies, mathematics and science. In addition to the capital aid provided by New Zealand to build Rejang College and also for construction of a trade school in Sabah, there were 13 New Zealand teachers serving under Colombo Plan assignments in the Borneo states of Malaysia. The possibility of further technical assistance assignments between New Zealand and Korea was discussed today by Mr Holyoake with a Korean delegation. Appreciation for New Zealand’s assistance with development projects in Korea was

voiced to the Prime Minister by Kim Hyeong Seo, chairman of the Korean Association for the Development of Assimilation Projects, and Succ W Suh, a Government official seconded to the secretariat of the Freedom from Hunger Campaign in Seoul.