INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1922, Page 6

INGLEWOOD.

A VISITOR FROM CANADA. (From Our Own Correspondent.) February 7. Of the three lady teachers whose arrival from Canada, by the Niagara at Auckland on Thursday last, was notified in the News to-day, one, Miss Lewis, has come to Inglewood, where, it is understood she will be stationed for the present. On Monday a small gathering comprising the Mayor (Mr. J. Sutherland) and some members of the school committee was present at the school to bid her welcome. Mr. J. Thomas, head teacher, having introduced Miss Lewis to the children of the school hind the visitors, Mr. Sutherland, on behalf of the people generally.. and the parents and guardians of the pupils particularly, tendered a very hearty welcome to their visitor from overseas. His remarks were such as to give confidence to Miss Lewis in her happiest anticipations of the kind of reception she might expect from her New Zealand Empire cousins, and her reply expressed her appreciation of them. Moreover, the message of goodwill she brought from her old pupils in Saskatchewan to their successors —as pupils—in Taranaki was so tastefully expressed as to ensure her hearty co-opera-tion in her work here.

The arrival in our midst of a real Canadian “school ma rm” was largely a surprise, but judging by expressions to be heard from all and sundry on being made aware of the fact, her stay here bids fair to hold a place in her memory in the years to come, that will render the name of Taranaki, New Zealand, a specially favored one.