NEW CHAIRMAN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 286, 22 August 1918, Page 4

NEW CHAIRMAN

OF WELLINGTON EDUCATION BOARD. When the Wellington Education Board met yesterday the secretary said that tne first business was to elect a chairman. ' Mr. E. I J . Rishworth said that he would nominate Mr. T. Forsyth. Mr. - A. W. Hogg said that as senior member of the board ho would like to nominate Mr. Forsyth. Mr. Hogg said that the position was an important one, and as Mr. Forsyth had been connected with education matters for some time'ho was sure he would fill the chair with credit to. .himself and honour to thb board. Ho had worked on a school committee, and was a man with the useful quality of courage, which would be of value, as there were troubles ahead.

Mr. W. H. Field seconded the nomination. He said the position was one which must almost necessarily be filled by a city member, and of the city members there were two who stood out as eminently suited for the position—Mr. T. Forsyth and Mr. E. P. Rishworth. Ho understood that Mr. RishwoTth was not standing for the position, 60 he had pleasure in seconding M'r. Forsyth's nomination

Mr. Forsyth was elected unopposed. Mr. Forsyth thanked tho board for electing him. He observed that ho thought that the national 6ystem of education needed improving.

Mr. Forsyth has been a. member of the board for only two years, though ho lias all his lifo taken n keen interest in educational affairs, and for ten years past has been connected with the Clyde Quay School Committee, either as member, secretary, or chairman. Two years ago an extra seat on the board for Wellington was created and Mr. Forsyth was elected. Mr. Forsyth was born in Dunedin, and as a lad entered tho soft-goods business of Dodgshun and Co., wliero ho remained for a period of fourteen years, latterly as manager. Ho then accepted the position'of accountant at To Aro House, in which employ he has been for twenty years, the last two as general manaejer (in succession to Mr. C. Chant). He has always taken a deep interest in the profession of accountancy, nnd'is ht tho present tinio president of the New Zealand Accountants and Auditors' Association. He is a member of flip Council of the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce, and a few months airo read a paper on prosrossive' education, which was rend widely with trreat interest. Tim new chairman of the board is a lover of music, and officiates as oriranist and choirmaster of Ihe Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church.