Sacred Heart College, Auckland

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 7, 14 February 1907, Page 15

Sacred Heart College, Auckland

(From our own correspondent.)

In the recent matriculations examination the following students were successful : — John Redmond Taylor, Claude Simmons, and Brendan Lavery. In the list of ' Junior Civil Service passes^ the following names of pupils of the college appear.: Claude Simmons, Carroll, Edward Buckley, John Taylor, Brendan Lavery, George Turnfoull, George Hall, William White, Walter Webb, and Alfred Hayes. . These results are exceedingly satisfactory, as they .de^ note a steady progress since the inception of the College three and a "Half years ago, the highest number of marks previously secured in - any one year . being , 2 in mat*culation , and I■' in Junior .Civil- Service. A thoroughly up-to-date system has now been evolved for the working of X the college, and the Catholics of Auckland lpok forward to even more striking results of the zeal( and ability, of the members of. the- teaching staff. ' - ' Brother Paul has recently : been appointed Director of the- college. He has had wide- experience in various parts of the British Empire. Fox, some years previous -to Ms departure for Europe he was Director of St. Mary's High School, in the . Cathedral parish, Sydney. Thanks to the energy .and thoroughness with which he laid the foundations for the future in ,this school, St. Mary's has for years occupied a lea/ding place among the secondary schools of Australasia. •" After spending some time in the Marist Brothers' College in' France, Brother Paul taught in London,, and was then transferred to St. Joseph's Commercial College, Dumfries, well •'. nown in the British Isles as a consistently successful institution. After inspecting the educational systems in Ireland, Brother Paul" went jbo South Africa, and at the outbreakiof-^tte Boer War was in charge of the -Brothers' -school -in Johannesburg, which numbered 700 pupils. After further experience in South Africa ,as Director , of: " the Brothers' . school in Capetown, Brother Paul arriwd in New Zealand, where he is already well known and- highly -^ appreciated. The Sacred • Heart College is fortunate ,Jn securing for its Director a man who has had such varied experience 4nj teaching and in directing schoojbl The collese re-ooeried on Monday, February 4, and judging by the number of new boys on the rolls, there "is a prosperous year in store for it.

. Holiday excursion tickets in " connection with the Dunedin Autumn Races w*ll be issued from, any station on the Hurunui-Bluff section of the railways from February 18' to 22....