HAMILTON.
(To tht Editor of the Mount Ida Chronicle.) July 17, 1876. Sin, A corespondent in your issue of the 14th asks why the building at present used for a school (the church) should not do as before P So it would if it was nearer what he terms Cornish Town, where the principal part of the population are. But we, the worthy inhabitants of Cornish Town, after due consideration, came to the conclusion that the children could not walk five miles a day, over a road that a man in a pair of gum boots or on horseback can hardly get along on so therefore we thought it much better to subscribe £4O or £SO, and build a schoolhouse half way, so that both Hamilton and Cornish Town might send their children to it, and be a school house for both. And, further, to shift the residence of the master as well. By this means I think there would be as many scholars as would come up to the requirements of the Education Board, as there are at present none attending school from Cornish Town, where there would be between ten and twenty when conveniently situated. I may mention that there is every prospect of a schoolmaster being appointed. if the appointment is not already made.—l am, &c., John M'Donald.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 385, 28 July 1876, Page 3
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221HAMILTON. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 385, 28 July 1876, Page 3
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