THE NEW MASTER.

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 50, 4 February 1902, Page 4

THE NEW MASTER.

It seems. necessary to : mak@;;*the;. Motueka JXisp trict High Sohoola. success, iMve beoti/-atr^last■. combined.; , The h Lli'l<l ing...j gadabout, completed ,is, bqth; inside credit' to the district ; the Headmaster"has,,had a long experand organi?atior_*o£ besides possessing high scholastic attainments J.and Mi*. J-.,F, Wilkes, M.A., .whom, the , Committee have recommended to be appointed -as teacher of the Secondary Subjects has ] ust the qualifications necessary to make the High School department second to none in the _ colony. , , Mr Wilkes is an old Nelson boy, who,, after gaining a scholarship, from the, Richmond State School, was educated at the Nelson Bay's , College, He crowned his career there by carrying off a Junior Scholarship, being third scholar for the Colony, in 1893. He left the College, carrying with him the most gratifying testimonials as to character, conduct,; and ability from Mr Joynt, M.A., late Principal. Mr Littlejohn M.A., present Principal and Mr Gibbs, late Assistant Master. Indeed, one,,of the Masters classed him as the best English scholar that ever passed through his hands. . Mr Wilkes then proceeded to Canterbury College, where, after giving great satisfaction to the various Professors, he graduated 8.A.-in 1897, |an<l next year he obtained the degree of M.A

Since that time Mr Wilkes.has.held the of Lecturer at the Normal School Christchuich, in the subjects .if* history, science and algebra ; and it is woithyof note that last year three of his pupils: gained the three prizes given by the Educational Department for proficiency in Experimental Science.

Ml- Wilkes is exceptionally well able t, > teach Latin, English, mathematics, shorthand and chemistry" ; and coming' as he does with the highest testimonials tor character and diligence, the residents of Motueka and surrounding districts may 'congratulate themselves that they have in their midst educational advantages such as are possessed by hardly another district of the same s'ze in toe whole colony. Mr Wilkes will take up his work here in about four weeks time.

A movement is on foot to establish, a jam factory at the Thames on cooperative lines, it being estimated that there is now plenty of fruit growing.in. Jie district, a large proportion of which at present goes to waste, to make a success of such an industry. , ,

A lady, who had just returned from a visit to the Old Country, informed the Fielding Star that she. was present abmt six weeks ago at a meeting in an. out- jf-the-way village in Scotland,, and; wluu the name of New Zealand was mentioned the audience rose as one mail aod gave three hearty cheers. A deliberate outrage was committed on Djcamber 14, at Samabula, . Fiji, when three Indians—man, wife, and san-weie attacked by four Fijians with a tomahawk and native clubs. The Indians we're very seriously hacked about, and are unable to identify the ; the euljdts. Part of "the house where-: in the Indians were sleeping w.us burnt and otherwise wrecked. The boy was iu a very critical state, having had his

An American who saw one of the colonial coitihgents land at 'Capetown' is qu >tad by aind : Englishman ' now in the c >loiy as having described it thim quaintly : —" They are a very fine body of mea--just 'the ; sort r of men that ate wanted in Sbutti ! Africa: • I have ah that John BullHvould haye'beeh a trine liinelywithout'theni." ,; ' * l

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