ABSTRACT
The district was a reasonably good one, and all three schools had a good reputation and none had any difficulty in attracting and keeping staff. One was much larger than the other two, so that it tended to dominate in interschool sporting and other fixtures. The tensions that had been inherited from the past among the staff were kept in the background. In a situation where the majority of the staff feels themselves threatened and undervalued, several things tend to happen. Relationships between the various staffs though friendly were not close, and one of the smaller schools thought itself more advanced in its ideas than the others which were more traditional. As there was no grammar school among the original components, the development of a new academic element was thought to be of great importance, and much weight was naturally put on this in the selection of the headmaster.
