MASTERTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8504, 9 August 1907, Page 5

MASTERTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

HEADMASTER'S REPORT. The monthly report of the Headmaster of the Mastertou District High School (Mr W. H.Jackson) submitted to the meeting of the Masterton School Committee, last evening, stated inter alia:—l have the honour to submit the following report for the past monthAttendance—Main School: Roll, 63b'; average attendance, 576; percentage of attendance, 91. Side School: Roll, 179; average attendance, 163; percentage of attendance, 91. Secondary Classes: Roll, 74; average attendance, 70; percentage of attendance, 94. A very good record of attendance has been made for the month. The accompanying absentee report contains a number of names that have often appeared in former absentee reports. The school cleaner at the Side School is laid up with a sprained ankle. He has obtained a substitute, and he desires the Committee to take into consideration the question cf payment for this extra labour. On Arbor Day planting was done in the recreation ground, in the play grounds, and in the school garden plots in accordance with the scheme of work submitted to the Committee. I enclose a report dealing with work to be undertaken in connection with the plots for the experimental culture of small fruits. The Board's clerk of works paid a visit to the school to-day, in' connection with the i provision of a door and porch for the ! northern entrance. He will submit a sketch plan of the work to be done. I have received notice that the annual examinations will commence on Monday, the 2nd prox., several weeks earlier than usual. The term holiday, which should commence on the date named, will be postponed for a week. The annualfootbal I match, Wellington Schools v. Wairarapa Schools, will be played on Saturday, the 17th instant, at Masterton. The Wellington representatives will be the guests of the Masterton boys fiom the Friday evening until the following Monday. After the match the visitors will be entertained at a social function, to which the memj bers of the Committee are cordially invited. Coincident with the visit of the football l-epresentatives, the girls of the School Hockey Club will jouz*ney to Wellington for a match with the Terrace High School girls, whose guests they will be from the Friday evening till Monday. These exchanges of visits have proved both pleasurable and proT]table in the past, and they have an educational value. ...I have received from Messrs J. D. Cruickshank and Co. three parcels of new varieties of seed potatoes, and from Mr E. H. Waddington a supply of band music score forms for the School Drum and Fife Band. The enclosed report in reference to the experimental plots for the culture of small fruits—currants, gooseberries, raspberries and strawberries —stated that various material was necessary for the erection of structures to protect the plants. Mr Jackson stated that in order to make a success of this experimental work the structures are absolutely necessary. This will become one of the most valuable of the lessons in the school garden. It was decided to pay for the extra labour for cleaning the Side School. It was also decided to procure the necessary material required for the experimental plots. A vote of thanks was passed to Messrs J. D. Cruickshank and Co. and to Mr E. H. Waddington for donations to the school.

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