Manchester School, Bunnythorpe.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 31, 16 August 1883, Page 3

Manchester School, Bunnythorpe.

(fhom otra own coeeespondent.) Ou Monday morning, at half-past nine o'clock, a large number of settlers with their children made their appearance in the schoolroom. The teacher then enterod the names of the children wishing td attend the school in the school register and 3*3 children were entered on the roll, after which the chairman. Mr Jackson, roede a few remarks suitable to the occasion. He said it was with much pleasure that he met so many of them there on that morning, and so large a number of boys and girls. It showed the interest taken by all in the matter, and he thought it might be taken as a guarantee that the school would be well appreciated. He trusted that the parents would assist all they could to enable them to derive as much benefit as possible from the school. Many of thorn had been rearing up their families in ignorance for some f«w yean and had long felt the need. He stated that could there have been a school there before, there would be now .many more settlers at Bunnythorpe than I there are at present, for the simple reason that people would not come there to lire because they could not get their children educated. He said they had had another drawback, and that, unfortunately, still remained, viz., the bad state of the roads, but he trusted before another winter let in that great improvements will be made in that direction, as all the principal road 9 are more or less in hand. He had now the honor of declaring the school opened, and with, the committee, wished Mr Walker, the teacher, eVery success. The chairman then addressed Mr Walker, and said he was afraid that for a few weeks some of the children would not be able to attend regularly on account of some of the roads being in a very bad 1 state, but when they dried up he believed there would be a fall attendance.