RECORD YEAR

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 367, 23 February 1937, Page 6

RECORD YEAR

STRATFORD HIGH SCHOOL

Country Children Taking Advantage of Assistance.

The Education Department’s scheme for assisting in the cost of transport in bringing children from country districts to secondary schools.which came into operation during the latter part of last year, is having a beneficial effect on the roll of the Stratford Technical High School. The number enrolled to-day, 344. is a record for the school, the previous highest number being 336. The principal, Mi- A. H. R. Amess, M.A., attributes this largely to the Department’s transport scheme, which has had the effect of causing larger numbers of children than usual from the country district immediately outside Stratford, to continue their primary school education by entering the Stratford Technical High School. Some parents in the town, it is understood, intend sending their children to the school this year, but have not yet enrolled them. This is a cause of great inconvenience to Mr. Amess and the staff, who have been busy all the week organising the work for the term, and are anxious to get the arrangement of the different forms completed as soon as possible.