CHURCH OF ENGLAND SERVICES TO-MORROW.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 394, 25 January 1879, Page 2

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SERVICES TO-MORROW.

Morning Prayer, with Holy Communion, at Pat- a, a* 1 L a.m. l-lvemog i’leyer at IT ikaratnoo, at 3 ji ::I. Evening Prayer, ai Patea, at 7 p.m.

next as the day on which School Committees fur .School Districts within th - L’iVtea County shall he. elected. Fortinbenefit of ai! eoiuvme i we have, in another eolirnii, reprinted from tieFMncti'.ion . Act the el-anses relating to elections. Wo would particularly point out the last two clauses, (J7 and <lB. widch give nowar to the Board, in cased'failure on the part of householders b fleet Cmnniillces, to appoint Paid Commissioners to carry out dut'r ■ properly dcvolvingon Committees. Tim salaries payahlc to such Commissioners being lak -n out of moneys avail:.ldo for school purposes within the districts to which Commissioners may be appointed, would of course reduce the amount of money available for the purposes of instruction. The sum now available is. in ai: conscience, small enough, without further reductions being made in salaries to Commissioners. We mention tin’s to show the necessity for every householder, for Ids own pocket’s sake, attending somewhat to the requirements or the Education Act. Bown Commissioners have to be elected for each Bchooi District. failing which the Board, having a second time gone to the trouble and expense of convening meetings, may appoint I’ai!) Commissioners. Clause 3d of the Education Act, reads, “ For ‘•veiy school district tonstitiUod under this Ad, there shall be a .School Commuted consisting of seven householders resident within the school district, In be el-ctcd as hereinafter provided.” School Districts have been formed at Carlyle, liawera, Kobi, K.dcaramea, Manntahi, Nia-.iuuby, W.-iv.-rb-y, Whenuaknra, am! Waitotara. Committees must thcrofore lie cDcted i’or those' places, failing which PAID Commissioners will be appointed, the cost of whom, together with expenses incurred in the endeavor to get School Committees elected, will come out of funds which would otherwise be available for rlie instruction ofthe rising-generation. Sufficient, surely, has new bemi said to impress all bous.dioMers wi:h the inipor-t-mee of attending meetings for the cleciion of Committees in the various School Distric’s, convened for Monday evening, at half-past seven o’clock, in the respective school-houses. Apart from the money loss which inattention to the requirements of the Act in r. spcct to elections would involve, the importance of the trust, ami advantage of parents being able to take an active, and we should hope intelligent, part in the regulation of the machinery for the education of the rising generation, should be sufficient to induce largo attendances at tin* election of School Committees. Tim best men in each locality should he found sitting together as School Coiii'iiittecne n. Tuis can only he secured by lull attendances of householders on the evening of election at the places appointed, ami a readiness being shown f.y men of" character and inte!/;genee, to lead if need be, or at any rate to do their share of work. We give extract from an article from the Nelson .Mail, in wlih-1. the writer strongly urges tin- necessity for efficient school inspection. and aiso sets forth the great importance of moral training as follows:

A good man who can rmil'ur r>-ad nor write is bi-ttcr liiau a liigbiy cultivated rogue ; work and behaviour intuit go hand in baud, and without living taught dogma, boys can be taught morality. They can b* trained to be brave, generous, trmbfu', and mcniy. Drive out their coarse and low babiis, mid li-.-K-b them rca! iii-mlim-ss instead of allowing them to set up a bustard standard of manliness which tb-y are so prone to do. Let them be taught to do right for right’s sake, ami not from hone of reward or fear of punishment. Books "itii slci icius (>f llm lives of noble mm, such as bir Philip Sydney, and Chevalier Bayard, should lie intrudm-cd into onr Government schools ■ singing should be more practised than is m<w, for probably ihere is nothing tl at has more effect upon buys than noble songs. A boy aeso understands u hat it is to be. brave, pdicky, and m;miy, and can easi y be tanebt that moral bravery is the highest form of bravery. A boy can tie taught that to swear and use had language is exceedingly iow and timnauly. If yon sln-i tears over him and ted him that it is wicked, lie will probably not understand you, but he can be trained to see liial such conduct is low and Keus.;hj ss. Let them be trained to see that the most civil boy. and tin: boy mo-d respectful to bis superiors is ilia one who is most many and really bid •■pendent. Let all these things b,‘ taught in schools, and we shall soon cease to have an ontc-y against secular cdiicaii-.m. which ap-sireiitly, is the only education possible. We repeat again that I In-re are schools where refigion is • aught, which have, u very low ton • ; and tbme are .schools where no religion G taught, which have a vey high lone. In fact to judge from Paigrnvc’s travels in A -in, where he speaks of the high breeding of some of the vili.-tga lads, wo might >uppose 'bat 1 li • outcome of tie- K""ill was b. i Lcr tb-in tee on; c.mn- of the Bible in >-o nr eu-s'-s. If iiio plan of sceiilar education, ns it is ct'h-d. is not i;n 'roved, tin-re wi 1 of ncC'-saity be an outcry against it. S.- V'-rai private schools have already bm It is ab isbed in different parts of the colony, i wmg to parents having an objection to sending their children to the Government .schools. Tin-re is a tcmieiiey also to economize money by mussing large numbers together ; nonulimes Sour or five bun hvd children are massed together m one school. Now, this is an excellent tiling when ihcrc; is au energetic; head master who is resolved to introduce a sound public opinion in lbs school, and who is also back'd up by good assistant masters, hut in many cases school boards are not ab!-; to get tiuse dements, and the consequence is a rapid deterioration of the children.

We hold that, efficient school inspection can only lie secured by tin 1 election of actively intelligent men ns School Committeemen—men who will not he satisfied with mere hearsay from Inspectors, schoolmasters, or pupils, hut who will take the trouble to see, hear, and judge for thorns -ives, and will he independent enough, after line consideration in Committee, to act for or against or with cither one or the other, as cases may require. It cannot hot be helpful for teachers to know that Si hod Committeemen are exercising a watchful supervision over .themselves, and by attendance at

examinations and at other times are 'li diicd to judge, if not of the qualifiea--mns, at least of the maun t of the Inspector, and of the conduct and e-ogress made by scholars. Wd; could 'uhirge on this subject, hut loin!.: nliicieiit inis been said, and, while feeling miuulhl about general interest being iken in this important matter, shall ;opc for good results.