Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 1902. State Schools.

Manawatu Herald, 6 November 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 1902. State Schools.

The new classification of teachers of State Schools has not resulted to the benefit of country schools, butrathar to their disadvantage. Efforts are being made to secure the average attendance of scholars at the Poxton School shall not fall below the average for the present year, which will no doubt be ably seconded by both parents and scholars when they appreciate the position. We are informed that during the past nine months the average has kept at 200 and much anxiety is shown by the Head Master and Committee that there shall not be a falling off of even one poor numeral during the balance of the school period to Christmas. It may astonish many parents how a diminution of one in the average, should be of so much consequence ? It arises from the wonderful arrangements which Education Boards conceive should govern education. Under these arrangements five teachers are deemed necessary to educate 100 children or 160 children, but should there be one more child than 150 then six teachers are needed. The very wide margin of fifty children does not appear to bs considered of consequence by Boards, thus the Poxton School working with the average of 200 has only be considered, by the Board, not the teachers, to need the Staff that the Board considers requisite to teach 1501 To an ordinary parent it would appear plain that five teachers being required to teach 150 pupils, and that there are 199 pupils in the school, 49 must be unfairly neglected, or if not a particular 49, then the whole of the scholars in the school are being neglected. The Committee are, naturally, nervous that during the coming weeks something may occur to disturb and lessen the average already secured, and should such happen, down goes the average for the year, and lost ia hope of securing a sufficient teaching staff for next year. Of course it does not seem right, except to members of an Education Board, that the progress of children at a State School for a whole twelvemonths should hinge upon the. question of one or two children attending school for the last, few weeks of the year, but as, in the wisdom of our unrepresentative Education Boards, this accident is to be used as a punishment to the district, parents will readily seize the position the Committee find themselves in, and will enter heartily into their desire to use the Board’s pot process and see that their children attend regularly and so beep the average to the needed point. The whole system is wrong, but the subject ia one too long to enter upon now, and might, if dwelt upon, confuse the importance of the action now desired, and thus on local grounds we refrain from touching upon, what seams to us, a most mistaken system of staffing schools. Let the parents work together and thus secure for their children’s advantage a more numerous and effective Staff for the coming twelve months.

Tenders are wanted by the Messrs Symons for 40 chains of drain. Tenders close of 15th instant. There will be a good sale at Levin to-morrow. Messrs Abraham and Williams advertise large entries. Owing to Monday being a public holiday Mr John Stevens , has altered the date of his address to the following Wednesday.

Mr E. Coley notifies that all trespassers on his premises in Coley street V/ili be prosecuted. Sir John Gorst until lately VicePresident of the Committee of Council on Education has been granted a political pension of £I2 OO a year. At the Sydney sheep sales on Monday 300 from New Zealand were sold at from 14s. yd to 345. pd. Twenty - seven bullocks averaged £tß 4s 3d.

Mr Fred Carter has been returned to the Maaawatu County Council for Awahou Riding without opposition, as have all the old Councillors except the one for the Kawakawa Riding.

The Court of Appeal has Upheld the conviction of Mrs Drake. She will come up for sentence at the criminal sessions on the 24th instant.

The Sultan of Turkey directed his Minister of Foreign Affairs to reconsider the advice the Minister gave with reference to the Aden hinterland. It is since reported that the difficulty has been settled Satisfactorily. Owing to the scarcity aud dearness of fodder and meat, the directors of the Sydney Zoo are offering surplus animals and birds for sale, including three lions and three leopards at £ls each, Zebu bulls at £23 a pair, and a pair of ostriches) which are valued at £iod.

The Berlin newspapers are much perturbed at the accusations of Sir Horace Rumbold, late Ambassador to the Emperor of Austria, who stated in an article in the “ National Review ” that the Austrian Emperor had been Britain’s sterling friend throughout the late Boer war-, and that the. Gentians Were still Great Britain's most Unrelenting and dangerous foes.” Referring, to the remarks of the Chairman, on Friday the Premier .remarked that Mr Beauchamp had stuck to the Liberal party in adversity, and now shared in the prosperity which existed. It was no longer considered a discredit for a merchant ot Wellington to belong to the Liberal party; in fact—and he was proud to say it—it was considered to be an honour to belong to the pat'ty which had lifted New .Zealand out of a slough of despond, and placed it in such a position that it was looked upon as the brightest gem in the English diadem. Mr Harry Furness, the well-known English litterateur, gats off the following:—“I was invited to a public dinner, and Was advertised to make the third speech. Mr Seddon’s was, of course, the first. I bad taken great pains in preparing mine, and devoted considerable time to ‘ thinking it out: ’ at the last moment, perhaps in consequence of this extra mental strain, I was seized with violent neuralgia, and had to telegraph my apologies for not being present. I was deeply grieved I could not let off that speech, for I was anxious to compliment Mr Seddon on his energy, and in doing drag in a joke about his not leading a sedentary life.. It so happened the New Zealander spoke for an hour and a half- Number two was left five minutes, and I would not have had a chance of getting a word in at all! When Macaulay's New Zealander sits on the ruins of Westminster Bridge, I venture to prophesy he will turn out to be Mr Seddon—still talking.”

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