SOUTHBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18218, 31 October 1924, Page 11

SOUTHBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL.

TO THE EDITOR OF "TilE TRESS." Sir,—Docs tho Rev. Butler assume that because sonic Lceston business; men have been carrying too 'much sad, Lceston, as the centre of. the Ellesmorc Ocunty, is down and out:' Icm remember the time when. three Southjliridgd st/ni-ekevpors, failed in ."-ax mciaths, and yej> still survives.

Of tbn success of l^g* 1 School, there is no doubt.; hut ir it had heen run at Loe.fcton by the tamo gifted teacher it would havo had a-t Icasfc twice as many pupils. When it was proposed a few years ago to shift the High School to Lecston, I wrote a. letter to the Board, aching thorn to lay the map r.-f the districton the tabic. I ask you and your reader o to do the feamo. Rule off a '''o section of sheep country lying towards the Kakaia, and the centre of the remainder will be i'cund about- one milo- - of -Leesion. while South bruise lies much on the same <_>: the wheel, but -H mi lei further irooi the centre.

For over foriy years there has only been cno stock ' 'ale at Southbi while Leeston has had two sales a. month regularly.. I a.-koj the Beard then, and I ask your readers now, if the Eliesmerc people- refused to drive their stock to was i:. reasonable to ask them to drive, iheir childre.u th.-rer' The Board are now f;i<-e.d with the problem, whether they .-ball build a new secondary school at soiitnbridge, or build only a primary school to replace the one burnt fact iemaim> that the. Southnrideo Primarv School I'a.s twice. ;b m3».> pupils as the Leeston Primary School, but the latter is surrounded by o;her neigh houriim; competitors— Poylesten about two miles, KiHin.-hy. Lakesiue. a.nd Southbrid-e all about four miles. AVith the nresent move ior ccntralisUip tc-hof.'.s iu districts, it scme.s to me t.:at the Kcv. Butler and the rovthi^le* contingent aro "flogging a dead horse. -Yours, etc., ci¥Xjncß COSSETi October -2 ( Jih, iy-i-