EDUCATIONAL MATTERS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5, 3 May 1912, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL MATTERS

(To the Editor "Stratford Post.")

Sir, —The accounts of the opening of Stratford's substantial and handsome new school, which accounts appeared in the 15th and 19th (ulto.) issues of your paper, attracted my attention for two reasons: (1) being myself a retired (by flux of time) school teacher, (2) on account of the interest taken in the affairs—educational and otherwise—of Stratford in its early days by my brother, now deceased, Mr I. Arthur Jones. One of the speakers truly referred to Stratford's enviable growth, which bids fair to follow that of Auckland's unparalleled progress. The incipient stages in the progress of all institutions are always interesting, and, one may say, important, being the source of all future expansion. The early records having unfortunately been destroyed by fire prevented the details being as complete as they might 'Otherwise have been. I would much like to mention that my brother, Mr 1. Arthur Jones, being chairman of Stratford's first school committee, besides interesting himself in the school at Midlirst, selected, with others, the site for Stratford's primitive school building, which did good work under ils headmaster, Mr Johnson.—l am, etc., THOMAS A JOXEy.,