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FOXTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

REPLY FROM DIRECTOR

The chairman of the local State school received the following reply to a telcgraim forwarded to the Director of Education re the establishment of a District High School, on Saturday: “In reply to your wire of yesterday’s date, I regret that, owing to the visit of the Director t > the South Island, he will* be unable to confer with your committee before the Christinas holidays. The Senior Inspector of Schools of the Wanganui district has been asked lo report on the matter. —E. Marsde.n, Assistant Director of Education.” The preliminary steps to have the District High School established have been taken by the committee some months ago and were endorsed l»y tile Board who forwarded the application on to the Department. (To The Editor). Sir, —It is gratifying to note that the headmaster of our local school lias brought before the committee the necessity of establishing a District High School at Eoxton. This, is a forward movement that deserves the support of the committee and the backing of the people in the interests of the workers children to whom education is the biggest asset. in life, but like every other forward movement in this district, it will be discouraged by the Massey Government which seems to think that higher education is a luxury only for which rich children, whose parents can afford to send them away and forget that there is intellectual talent in the children of the poor, quite equal, and sometimes superior to that in the children of the rich but, the Massey Government will not encourage it for fear that it may produce another Ramsey MacDonald to emancipate the honest worker from the oppression of the power of wealth. This should be made a test question at the general election due in the new year, and the electors in this district must demand that a district high school be established in Eoxton. If the Massey Government will not. give it, and they have had their chance, then let us return a. Liberal-Labour government, which is waiting for the opportunity to do --0. and give the workers’ youngsters a chance. —I am, etc." P. L. HOLDINGS, [THE delay in sanctioning a Dis-* tried High School for Eoxton is purely a departmental affair, the settlement of which rests with the Board, Committee and Director of Education and Mr Rolling's attack on the Massey Government is therefore mere puerility.—Ed. H.]

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2824, 16 December 1924, Page 2

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FOXTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2824, 16 December 1924, Page 2

FOXTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2824, 16 December 1924, Page 2

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