WAIRARAPA COLLEGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1939, Page 2

WAIRARAPA COLLEGE

BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETS. REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL. The monthly meeting of the Wairarapa College Board of Governors was held last night. There were present Mr W. R. Nicol (chairman), Mrs C. C. Jackson, Messrs A. Owen Jones, Alex Donald, F. C. Daniell, L. T. Daniell and E. Hanley. The principal of Wairarapa College, Mr G. G. Hancox, reported that the roll number of the day school for the first fortnight of the term was 447 and 443, and the average weekly attendances 407 and 404 respectively. At the end of last term 56 pupils had left the day school for the following destinations: To positions 19 boys, 10 girls; left Masterton, 8 boys, 3 girls; home (farming), 5 boys, 11 girls. The attendance at the evening classes was beingwell maintained and enrolments were still being made for this term. The Department had approved additional clases being started in first aid, home nursing. French and German, if the numbers waranted it. The number of boarders at College House was 33. Advice had been received the Principal stated, that the technical inspectors would visit the College from October 16-20 and the secondary inspectors frorp November 8-9. The net profit for the orchestral society concert amounted to £9 3s, which was divided equally between the society, and the wireless fund. The net profit on the annual musical and dramatic entertainment, presented at the Opera House on August 14 and 15 was £53 2s lOd. Mr D. McCaskill, senior inspector of primary schools, visited the school on September 15 to interview prospective entrants to the teaching profession. Mr R. Darroch, secretary of the Wellington branch of the Navy League, addressed the school on September 20. Fourteen cases of representative proA ducts of Wairarapa College had been forwarded to the Centennial Exhibition. 1

It was decided to send a letter to Rex Daniell, who had left College to take up training for the Royal Air Force.