THE SCHOOL WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1192, 29 July 1911, Page 10

THE SCHOOL WORLD.

A WEEKLY REVIEW.

NOTES FROM TOWN AND COUNTRY

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JUVENILE THRIFT. SCHOOL SAVINGS BANKS. The latest idea of the Post Office Savings Bank is to issuo small steel safes, at a cost of between Is. and as. each, with the object of encouraging juvenilo thrift. The Savings Bank keeps the key and, when the receptacle is full, tho child brings it to tho post office, where is it opened and the sum of its contents credited "to 'the "depositor.' —Another -suggestion is that a, half-hour each day ba devoted by school teachers to a short address on thrift and, during that half hour, tho teacher to receive from tho pupils whatever small money they have in iheir possession, to be entered to their credit in a school banking account, which when it reached a certain amount, would bo transferred to the Post' Office Savings Bank, with the teacher and ouo of tho parents as trustees, the money not to be withdrawn without the consent' of both. If, however, one trustee died tho other would havo power to deal with the money. THE SCHOOL GLEBE, LEGAL EIGHTS OF TEACHEES. A few weeks ago, at Clinton, evidence in a law'case touching the possession of a school glebe was heard before Mr. J. E. Bartholomew, S.II. (states a contemporary). It is the recognised custom in country schools that the schoolmaster or mistress lias tho right of possession of any produce from a school glebe, and as this was the first case of its kind heard in New Zealand, as counsel concerned and tho magistrate admitted, considerable interest was centred in it. Mary Kean, of Clinton, who had been school-mistress at Wharetoa (a new settlement in Clutha), claimed £11 from Charles Fitzroy Overton (secretary of tho school' committee), tho value of eleven sacks of grass-seed taken by the defendant. The glebe comprised 6J acres, and as there was no boundary fence between it and Ovcrton's adjoining property ho took the seed as compensation for trespass by tho teacher's and scholars' horses going into liis crops. Ovcrton was supported in this action by the committee. Ho also claimed that lie had tho permission of tho Education Board to get tho grass off the glebe. The magistrate ruled that this would bo in contravention of Section 60 of the Education Begulations, and gavo judgment for plaintiff for £9,