Two Sporting Principals.

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy….” so they say. At least two important secondary schools in New Zealand are fortunate to possess young principals who will never fall into the fatal error of cutting down on recreation.

A few years ago Wellington possessed the best track and field athletes in New Zealand, two of these being Malcolm Leadbetter and Stan Ramson. Leadbetter, a sprinter, shares the New Zealand sprint record with several other well-known speed-merchants, and Ramson dead-heated with Frank Nesdale page 62 in the 440-yards hurdles at the final Australian and New Zealand Championship meeting.

For three years Malcolm Lead-better has been principal of the Waimate District High School, a school which is making itself known in academic and sporting circles. He has devised a sound scheme of measuring an athlete's capabilities and is obviously well-suited for his important position.

Now comes word that Stan Ramson who has been on the staff of the Hutt Valley High School under the watchful eye of another well-known sporting personality, Mr. J. N. Millard, has been appointed Director of the Hutt Valley Memorial Technical College.

Time marches on … it seems but a day since I saw these fine young athletes competing for New Zealand in international or inter-Dominion sport; to-day they are guiding the destinies of young New Zealanders. They are to be congratulated on reaching such high places in the teaching profession; the pupils are to be congratulated on having such excellent masters.

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