LATE MR CHARLESON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1941, Page 4

LATE MR CHARLESON

TRIBUTE PAID TO SERVICES. IN INTERESTS OF EDUCATION. Tribute to the services rendered by the late Mr A. W. Charleson to the Wairarapa High School Parents’ Association is paid by Mr A. Owen Jones, president of the Wairarapa College Parents’ Association. Mr Jones referred to Mr Charleson’s personal qualities and stated that he had always been prepared to give of his best for the furtherance of education. The late Mr Charleson, who was secretary of the Wairarapa High School Parents’ Association for seven years, played an important part in securing the present fine assembly hall at Wairarapa College after the Technical and High schools amalgamated. With the then chairman, Mr M. G. McKay, Mr Charleson was a member of a deputation which waited upon the Minister of Education, Mr P. Fraser, with a view to securing a suitable hall at the new college. It was emphasised that the hall provided for in the plans was completely inadequate. When Mr Fraser pointed out that there were other schools in the Dominion in all stages of delapidation which would have to be repaired before the Government could consider providing for a larger assembly hall, the deputation stated that the Parents' Association would raise the money without the Government's assistance, if necessary. With that end in view the association worked hard and raised a considerable sum of money, in which campaign Mr Charleson took a prominent part. Mr Charleson was also closely associated with the Masterton Beautifying Society.