A SCHOOL CHRONICLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1940, Page 4

A SCHOOL CHRONICLE

THE WAIRARAPA COLLEGE MAGAZINE. With its normal features recordini and describing the many-sided activi ties, in class-room, playing field anc elsewhere of a busy school, the lates issue of the "Wairarapa College Magazine,” now making its third annual appearance, gives due attention also t,c the war service of former pupils anc members of the staff. In this way as in others, Wairarapa College is building up its own traditions and those inherited from the two institutions —the Wairarapa High School and the Masterton Technical School —which it replaced. Two members of the staff are serving overseas with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and four others, including the Principal (Mr G. G. Hancox) are assisting in the training of the Territorial Force. Many former pupils of the College and of the preceding schools are serving in the Expeditionary Force, the Navy and the Air Force, while others are in khaki as officers, non-commissioned officers or privates of the Territorial Force. •■Some of our boys." the magazine states, “have already given their lives in the cause of freedom, and to their relatives and friends wc would like to extend the sympathy of the College.” Dealing comprehensively, as it docs, with events and changes of all kinds during the school year, and giving some news, too, of past pupils in ways of peace as well as in ways of war. the magazine has its full interest for present and past pupils and their parents and for other friends of the school. The illustrations arc group photographs of the prefects, _ the senior sports teams, boys and girls, and the Pipe Band, which has a noteworthy place in the life of the College.