Rangiwahia Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 187, 11 February 1896, Page 2

Rangiwahia Notes.

(From our Correspondent). Can you inform me what is being done by the Wanganui Education Board re erecting a schoolhouse at Raugiwahia ? Some months ago, I noticed a motion passed at one of their meetings granting various sums of money to different places for building and removing schools. £100 was granted for Rangiwahla. The settlers here have not had any official notice, or, in fact, any communication on the subject. Are the Board going to allow the matter to drift and drift, until winter sets in again with all its glory of rain and mud, and then use the plea " Roads too bad, cartage too dear," or are they going to bestir themselves and give the settlers their just dues ? Now, attending the school, which is held in a whare, the atmosphere of which is totally unfit for human beings to inhale, are thirty-one children. How the master, Mr Rule, manages to preserve any kind of order puzzles everyone who knows anything of the matter. Another thing, there is danger to those children's health. Each day they sit in such close confinement in a low building, with no ventilation but the door and the cracks in the wall. Can you suggest any way by which the Board can be aroused toi % sense of its duty '? / Haymaking is about finished. It has been a difficult matter tq saye it in, anything like good order on account of the. showery weather prevailing all the summer. There are a few acres of oats, to be cut "when the harvesting will be finished as far as Rangiwabia is con*