EDUCATION INSTITUTE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1940, Page 6

EDUCATION INSTITUTE

CONFERENCE OF SECRETARIES.

WELCOMED BY THE MAYOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, February 2. North Island branch secretaries of the New Zealand Educational Institute assembled in Palmerston North today for a two-day conference. Mr D. C. Pryor < Martinborough), Dominion president of the Institute, presided, and associated with him were Messrs J. Barnett (Johnsonville), treasurer, and G. Ashbridge (Wellington), secretary. Welcoming delegates, the Mayor, Mr Mansford, said education had a large influence on the Dominion's future. One is naturally reminded that this year we are celebrating the centennial of settlement in the Dominion,” said Mr Mansford. “Possibly in no avenue has progress been greater than in the facilities provided for education, but I think we must be reminded, not only in avenues of education but in all other ave-i nues, of those words, ‘lt is good to have ' money and the things money can buy,; but 'it is just as well to see that we' have not lost the things money cannot ■ buy.' When we see what is taking! place on the other side of the world i we wonder if we have not lost some of the things money cannot buy. and ail we can hope for is that this horrible conflict will be brought to a satisfactory conclusion and the nations of the world will be able to devote that time and energy to the betterment of mankind.” The secretaries attending the conference are: —Messrs K. E. Dawkins (Manawatu), E. R. B. Nielsen (Hastings), IL.Lunn (Central Hawke's Bay). G. 11. Percy (South Taranaki), .1. D. Murdoch (Ohura). A. J. Withers (Ilorowhenua), W. T. Slater (Ruapehu), J. E.

Bigelow (Whakatane), A. Broward (Western Bay of Plenty), E. G. Caigor (Poverty Bay), A. O. Steventon (Whangarei), Miss C. R. Lehndorf (Waipa), E. Riley (Napier). C. H. Ludgate (Rotorua), R. Arbuckle (Matamata). F. H. Garner (Southern Hawke's Bay). L. N. Fielder (Marlborough), A. H. Ferguson (Waiapu), T. T. Harper (Rangitikei), C. Hawkes (Egmont), K. B. McAllan (Thames), F. Thomas (Taihape), L. Stannard (Wellington), IT. L. Takle (Waikato), Miss V. I. Curtis (Taranaki), Mr J, A. Kennedy (Masterton).