A HELENSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 December 1916, Page 2

A HELENSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.

FREE SECONDARY EDUCATION. HELENSVILLE is crying, out like a voice frqm the wilderness, though the.plaioe is anything but a wilderness; rather a progressive township, with claims for higher education than that afforded by the present well-filled public school. Crying out almost as one voice for a District High School, and now prepared to place the demand in a more forceful manner than heretofore, by guaranteeing probably twenty or thirty scholars right away, so that for the life of us we cannot now see what excuse the Auckland Board of Education can adduce, or equivocate over the matter any longer. The claims of the parents of Helensville have already been put forward very concisely in these columns and the Board must by now be tj|.orod.ghly conversant with the true 'fact's of the'case.' Kight on, f)ght ever, is our Watchword for

the rights of the people, and little or nothing is to be obtained in the world without fighting to gain the ends aimed at. And this being a matter of higher education for our youth, open to all in more favoured places, calls for every .man and woman to demand their just rights. Fome sort of an effort was made last year to get I them, but unfortunately, two or lagging behind, caused the guarantee of the mini" Him to fall short. This was the ■7 excuse the Board of Educacould then find for refusing ville' modest request, but H^ we are assured that another of the district will reveal fact that over twenty pupils easily obtainable ; but united must be made, and the ■((oner the better. The pros and have been put before the Htblic in previous issues, and to~ another correspondent comes Hir light in order to help the ■bvement. We know that Bpelensville has several friends Hk the Board, which now ■assesses a sensible and hard■lghting, fair-dealing Chairman Hp Mr J. D. MacKenzie, to assist Kps in the good cause, so that we ■pay thus be helped in our ■terseverance. And " blessed are Rhey who help themselves."