BANNOCKBURN SCHOOL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 89, 25 July 1871, Page 3

BANNOCKBURN SCHOOL.

The people of the Bannockbura ar„- taking prompt action in connection with the School movement. The following memorial has b juu handed to us for publication :

"To the Members ut' the Hoard (if Education, Otavo : the humble memorial of the uudersiguul parerite and other residents, householder* in the Bannookburn district, respectfully she wish :

'• That your memorialists bjgtu call the attention of the Board of Education to the pressing necessity sxisting for the establishment of, at least, a Side School in the district of which they are the inhabitants. There are now in the inime liate locality more than thirty children between the ages of four and fourteen years, in a great measure wholly devoid of the means even of rudimentary instruction. A private school lias certainly been set on foot in the neighbourhood, but it is not adequate to the task of furnishing that amount of requisite tuition and accommodation which the wants of the place absolutely demand, and it is to be feared that even the little it can supply in this respect will fall through owing to the lack of sufficient support, such as would be afforded by governmental aid. The annexed return shows the position your memorialists hold in connection with their claim for subsidy ; and they believe that if the needful steps were taken by the Education Board a school could at once be favourably established in the district. They are enabled to guarantee about £7o for the first year, and think this sum would be readily augmented as soon as a school was fairly started. Your memorialists, in conclusion, hope for the Board's favourable consideration of their justifiable request ; and they will, as in duty bound, ever feel grateful therefor."—[About sixty names are appended.] In connection with the subject-matter of the memorial, we may add that the establishment of a school would tend to concentrate and advance settlement; for we are reliably informed that if the means of educating their children were placed within reach, many of the miners working in the locality, whose families now reside in other places where schools exist, would immediately prepare for their removal to the Bannockburn. We hope the Education Board will lose no time in giving effect to the prayer of the petition.