SCHOOL FIRES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 303, 13 June 1879, Page 2

SCHOOL FIRES.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail.

Sib, —I write to you because it is difficult to say who is the proper person offially to address on the subject, with reference to the want of "fires" during the past week and to-day in the public school here. Mr Chairman Meech is so much occupied, I understand, in erecting the railings of bridges with the Nomina stultorum semper parietibus hceret to attend to such simple and commonplace matters as either convening (he School Committee in a regular manner, or procuring a cord of firewood to warm the bodies of the little unfortunat3S who were required during the past inclement week to be present in the public school here for the education of their minds. School Committees are original in their ideas of education, and perhaps the local one is trying the experiment, if genius can be raised at zero. If the Government funds are not sufficient, or the executive of the Committee are too supine in the matter, let the old system under which many a brave scholar in the old country got his bodily warmth during his school hours be again resorted to, viz., by each bringing a supply of fuel for the day, vide Miller's "Schools and Schoolmasters." At any rate, do not let children cry all day long when they are not able to explain the cause. If nothing else can be done, the hat will be taken round by PATER-FAMILIAS. June 9, 1879.