SCHOOL AFFAIRS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 98, 24 February 1947, Page 4

SCHOOL AFFAIRS

A FURTHER indication of the rapid expansion of the Borough is borne out by the increasing School Roll, which this year amounts to no less than 826 pupils, with prospects of still more joining during the year. The Whakatane school has in the past few years become an increasingly important institution, and its power for good depends almost entirely upon the good relationship between teachers, committees and parents generally. The unfortunate cleavage which has apparently taken place recently must be therefore viewed with considerable concern by all parties. The best road to its solution lies in the ability of all concerned to honestly ask themselves in whose interests they are striving to serve; their own, or the childrens! The automatic answer must place everyone upon a common ground, and in a happier mood to continue jointly together for the benefit of those we seek to train as decent broad-minded and useful citizens of the future.

Boast Proved False At least one member of a travelling revue company will have reason to remember .his visit to Hastings. At the hotel at which he stayed he endeavoured to secure' a key for his bedroom, but was informed by the office clerk that it was not the practice to lock rooms at the hotel. The clerk also jocularly remarked on the honesty of the people of the town, but this boast was rather badly undermined when the occupier returned from the show to discover that his luggage had been ransacked and that a new navy blue suit was missing.

“Homely” Sheep A resident of Hamilton who owns four sheep to assist in keeping down grass in his orchard spent a considerable time on a recent afternoon searching for his “flock” after the sheep, which had broken out of the orchard as a result of being worried by a dog. Three of them were rounded up in a quarter of an hour, but after a lengthy search one which had broken away from the rope by which it was tethered, was still missing. When the owner went inside his house, however, he was surprised to find the missing sheep curled up comfortably on the floor.