Educational Facilities in the Back Blocks.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 278, 28 September 1906, Page 2

Educational Facilities in the Back Blocks.

The recant resolution of the Auckj laud Land Board, expressing the ! opinion that a travelling teacher ! should be appointed tor outlying dis- | tricts, as the absence of educational j facilities was severely felt by settlers in out-of-the-way localities, was before the Education Board on Wednesday, and th® Land Board also wrote offering to supply schedules of homes where this want was felt. Mr A. R. Harris said that the principal trouble experienced by the Land Board wee th® continued applications for exemption from re side new conditions, owing to absence of educational facilities. These settlers were very much handicapped in this respect. Those who could afford it lived off the land and applied for exemptions, but those who could not afford to live off the land had to let theft- children go without education, He believed that th® Taranaki Board had found th® travelling teacher a great succsfs. The Chairman (Mr L. J. Bago-ill) said the B.iayd had travelling leacbe.-s now ; for instance, at the Great Barrier there was an itinerary teacher, who attended to three different localities. The Education Board did not know of any cases such as those referred to by the Land Board, for no application had been made so far that had not been complied with in som® way. Mr Harris said between Kawhia and Awakino there was a place where settlers were 20 miles from a echool or store, and ha knew of familial where the children were grown up, oee girl was 15 years, without ever seeing the inside of a school. It was resolved by the Board to request the hind Board to forward the .schedules referred to.