The High School.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 262, 4 December 1903, Page 2

The High School.

ITS NEGATION TO SECO.VDAKY EDUCATION. SOME WAHM COMMENTS. The working of the new railway time-table came up for review at the Chamlber of Commerce meeting on Wednesday evening. In the discus-, si an on a resolution thut the amended service was giving satisfaction, and that-Mr Whitcoirtbe, traffic manager, should be thanked for Iris" as.sjf tance in the matter, the pivsident. Mr Uewley, referred to the desirableness of an earlier train inwards to New Plymouth. Especially was this def-iraible in the interests of scholars from outside centres, who were receivingl secondary education. Under the present time-table it suited children from Waitara, Inglewood, and intermediate centres to go to the Stratford lHstrict High School, which was manifestly against the interests of the local high school.

Mr Samuel .sukl perhaps that would prove a good tiring, as, if the inconvenience of present arrangements coukl be M-ought home to the people it might force on the provision of boarding uceoi.imodai.ioii at the high school. Only by this means could the institution be raised to a high, educational standard proportionate to its position and the importance of the town. Mr Uovett and other S|>cakcrs expressed themselves decidedly in a similar strain, and added that the school could never hope to attain the position it should occupy until the present "mixed" system was abohsJied. Mr Kerr referred to opinio*, hj» had i««d in the New Zealand Hag**me, staling that the results ob~ * tamed from the working of the New Mj mouth High School were inferior ri£**Zi"* straitoM *■"* Mr Utwley said that statement «as absolutely wrong. As for boarding accommodation the Boar* 01 Governors recognised its necessity but with the funds available its pvl vision was a mutter of iinpoariMlU ly. Continuing, Mr Bewley thouuht a lot of the weakness n the school was due to the antagonistic tone adopted towa.tl the institution by local people. 'lH>c records slwwed eminently satisfactory results- or Hie working for years, unit when Mr Weston took his seat on 11«: board with the expressed hue*. Hon ol criticising its work mtd cured inspectors of his own appointment, what was the result ? Tt ev la.W to find tte mkimi Mr Kerr interjected that therenort. furnished by Mr Pope was T^ The chairman (Mr Bewley) then closed the discussion, which * mm had go., away tram the subject and the resoiutioa orighwlly $$ £* >l4smU<m was put and curried, I