The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1875.
It was with feelings in which pleasure was largely alloyed by regret that we yesterday announced that Mr John Smith, for eleven years head master of Bridge-street School, had been appointed to the Inspectorship of Schools for Westland. While it is gratifying to know that a gentleman who has for so many years taught, with remarkable success, our leading Provincial school lias at last met with a recompense for his long and able services, such as it is, unfortunately, not in the power of our Board of Education to bestow, we cannot but deplore the loss that Nelson will sustain in the departure of one who ha 8 been so long amongst us that we scarcely know what we shall do without him. To find a worthy successor to Mr Smith will be no easy task. The hundreds' of boys whom he has trained during his eleven years' service are able to testify more eloquently than we can to the thoroughness of his work, and we know not how to sum up our estimate of his merits better than by saying that in leaving Nelson he will leave a wide circle of friends and well-wishers, but not a single foe.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 110, 8 May 1875, Page 2
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