RANGITIRA VALLEY SCHOOL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1590, 4 June 1887, Page 3

RANGITIRA VALLEY SCHOOL.

PRESENTATION. Avery pleasing ceremony occurred on Wednesday afternoon last at the Rangitira Valley ' School, when the Chairman of the School Committee, Mr J. Talbot, on behalf of the scholars attending the school, presented Miss Brown, the head mistress (who has had charge of the school since its initiation, and has now resigned), with a very handsome hand-painted dessert service. In making the presentation, Mr Talbot spoke very highly of the sterling merits of Miss Brown as a teacher, and deeply regretted her retirement. He wished her every happiness in the future. Miss Brown replied in a few feeling words, thanking them most heartily for their present and good wishes. All the children attending the school were present, with their parents and friends Some very hearty cheers were given for Miss Brown, and at the conclusion of the ceremony the children shook hands with her, and bade her “ Good bye.” As showing the estimation in which Miss . Brown is held in the district, and the work she has accomplished, we cannot do better than reprint a testimonial forwarded to her shortly after the Inspector’s examination of the school, and which we omitted to publish at the time ; “ Rangitira Valley, Dec. 28, 1886. “ To Miss Beetha Beown, Teacher Rangitira Valley School. “ The Committee are desirous of expressing to you their appreciation of the painstaking and able manner with which you have conducted the school since its opening some nine months since, and to congratulate you on the success which has attended your efforts, as shown in the recent Inspectorial examination, when you passed every candidate you presented. This gratifying result is all the more creditable to you inasmuch as you had to start .the school mostly with young children, quite new to their work. In addition to the trouble of training these in school discipline you had to carry on several pupils who had previously attended the Temuka or Waitohi Flat Schools, all of whom you presented and passed in a higher standard to that in which they last passed, and in the case of one pupil two standards higher. The Committee consider the examination was a very searching test of the general efficiency of your teaching in that you received no intimation whatever of the Inspector’s intention to examine the school previous to his actually entering on the work, the usual practice being to give some notice in order to afford time for a short prev paration of the pupils. The result is * very gratifying indeed, and the Committee feel you have well earned the complimentary remarks which the Inspector attaches to his report of the examination held by him.—l remain, yours faithfully, “John Talbot, “Chairman Committee.”