EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 15 March 1913, Page 13

EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.

In educational matters, Poverty Bay enjoys facilities o£ which the district may well bo proud. The district is included in tlio North Ward- of the Education Board, on which body it is represented by three members—Messrs. W. Morgan, J. K. Kirk, and M. M'Leod. The rapid settlement which is going on in Poverty Bay imposes constantly increasing obligations on th® board iu supplying the necessary facilities for education. In this respect the board has done all that could 1 be expected. - Gisborno has a large two-story building for the main school, and there are side schools in the suburbs of Kaiti, Mangapapa, To Hapara, and Makaraka. In the outlying districts, also, there are numerous schools conveniently situated. Secondary education, lias been provided for' by tlio establishment of tho Gisborne High School. This institution is controlled by a Board of Governors, who also mail ago valuable educational endowments on tho East Coast. In passing, it might bo mentioned that, tho_ leases for these endowments shortly fall in ( when it is fully anticipated the lands will bo relet at largo imS-cases on the present rentals. Mr. l'Yank Footc, B.A.j 13.5.C., is the High School Principal, and, with Mrs. Foote, has cliargo also of the boarding establishment in connection with tile institution. Tho staff as at present constitutcd is considered .to - lie ono of the most efficient in tho Dominion. The examinations at tho High School are conducted by tho Department's inspectors from Wellington, but _ tlio other schools throughout the district «ro examined by the Board's inspectors from Napier.