OPENING OF MUNGAROA SCHOOL
* . The new school in the Mungaroa Valley was opened on Saturday afternoon, a party of educationists, including the Minister of Education (Hon. 0. J- Parr), taking part in the proceedings.- The. new 6chool _ ocoupies a, prominent position in spacious grounds. The Minister, introduced by Jtr W H. Field, M.P., formally, declared the school opened, and an adjournment, followed to the .interior, where refreshments were served. The arrangements ware in the hands o( r o, most capal<e committee. the chairman being Mr. Edwards. Mr. Maher presided over tlio proceedings, and spoke in defence of education for the farmers, who, he said, should be intelligent and resourceful. In a better instructed' neople, lie 1 added, would be found a corrective to the work of designing people who could only impose on the credulous. The Minister of Education, sald tho chairman, had struck the right- note in his reference to. education. . Ho had a particular interest in country schools, and would be found a champion of school committees. There was a difficulty in Meeting the requirements of the people for schools because of the cost of school buildings, but he felt sure the neglect of the national asset of education could not be jiisllfled on the score of expense. Mr. Parr spoko at length on the aims of education to a highly appreciative audience, and before concluding, and in deference to the wish of the audience, unveiled a memorial to the young men of the district who took nart in the war. It was slated that thirty young men had been its contribution, lind that, a third of the number had mode the sacrifice of their lives on the altar of duty. The Minister said it was a great record from so small a community. The chairman of the Education Hoard (Mr. T. ForsvthV Messrs. London, Bishworth. Field, M.P., and Clifford also spoke, and the proceedines were brought to a close ■by the singing of the National Anthem. \
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 301, 14 September 1920, Page 3
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329OPENING OF MUNGAROA SCHOOL Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 301, 14 September 1920, Page 3
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