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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6235, 4 April 1881, Page 2

Saturday was the last day for the reception of applications for the position of head-master of the Wellington College, but the governors will not make their choice for a day or two. We sincerely trust that that choice will be directed by the soundest wisdom ; that the qualification of management, so wanting in the past, will not be allowed to override every other consideration, but that due regard will be paid to that literary capacity so essential in the person, whoever he may he, that may be placed at the head of a scholastic institution like that of the Wellington College. We have thrown out these hints because we have heard it stated in town that so long as the head-master is sound mathematically, his classical acquirements will be of secondary consideration. This is, of course, a mistake. The head-master of the Wellington College must be competent in all branches, or else he will be out of place. Good management and good teaching power can surely be found combined in one person, and that is the person that is wanted for the position and none other.