MASTERTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 16 February 1907, Page 5

MASTERTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

HEADMASTER'S REPORT. The Headnfester (Mr W. H. Jackson) submitted the following report to the meeting of the Masterton School •Committee, last evening:—Attendance.—Main School, roll 597, average attendance 530,' percentage of attendance 89; Side School, roll 169, average attendance 149, percentage of attendance 88; Secondary Classes, roll 76, average attendance 70, percentage of attendance 92. School reopened on the 4th inst., after the summer vacation. , Eighty new scholars have been admitted. Of this number 16 came from private schools, 12 from the South Island, four from Wellingon, five from Palmerston North, four from the East Coast, six from Grey town, two from j South Africa, one from England; ' the remainder being children just j ' commencing school. During the holiday the schools received a thorough cleaning. The floors were well scrubbed and all the rooms were sprayed with formalin. To fill the vacancies caused by the retirement of three pupil-teachers Miss N. Hogg has been appointed temporary assistant, and Miss Freeman has been transferred from Martinborough to this school as pupil-teacher. An appointment to' the position of permanent assistant will be made by the Board at its next meeting.. The 'School Cadet Corps will leave for phristchurch on Wednesday next. Arrangements have been made to take 110 cadets. These boys belong to/all classes above Standard 111. Captains Haslam, Bunting and Sutton will be in charge. The proposal to arrange an excursion to the Christchurch Exhibition for,the older girls in the school during the Masterton Cadet encampment, has met with no response from the Union Steamship Company, or from the {Education Department, and had better be abandoned. In place of it, I think a school excursion to Wellington on, say, the 22nd or 25th inst., would be heartily taken up by parents, and •would be thoroughly enjoyed by the scholars unable to go to Christchurch'. . I am sorry the committee were unable to have the asphalt and other repairs attended to in the holidays. I am afraid the tennis court and other portions of the play-grounds already asphalted will suffer considerably when the winter frosts set in. The tennis court could be flushed while school is being held, but not the. other portions. The recent rains have discovered leaks in the roof of the Main School. These are probably caused by in the gutters on the roof. The Committee approved of the suggestion to hold an excursion to Wellington. The arrangements for the excursion were left in the hands of the Headmaster, the Committee being of the opinion that Monday next would be a suitable day. It was decided to have the tennis court flushed while the school was closed. The matter of leakages in the roof was referred to* the visiting members.