MOA FLAT SCHOOL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 397, 7 October 1874, Page 3

MOA FLAT SCHOOL.

{To the Editor.) \ Srs. — I would earnestly try through the medium of your columns to draw the attention of the Moa Flat School Committee to the urgent necessity there exists for a sewing Mistress in connection with the school. I find there are a numoer of girls in attendance of the ages of from fourteen to sixteen, and the Committeo will not be doing their duty if they do not make an effort to supply this much felt want. At Roxburgh School there has been a Sewing Mistress for some time al though there are not so many grown up girls in attendance there as here. The system pursued by the Education Board in respect to application for a subsidy for the securing of the services of a sewing Mistress is ; they contribute £25 a year conditionally on the local Committee contributing £10 in addition. lam sure the parents of the girls alone would cheerfully contribute to the sum stipulated by the Education Board for the sake of securing instruction in needle work to their girls. I trust the Committee will lose no time in taking immediafe steps for securing to the school this much needed desideratum, and they will be faithfully discharging & duty they owe the community of this portion of the district. — I am, &c., PATEEFAairLIAS. I '.-- ' „,3