ON THE WARPATH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10045, 16 May 1910, Page 5

ON THE WARPATH.

TRUANCY INSPECTOR ACTIVE.

MASTEKTON COMES OUT CREDITABLY - . Some interesting remarks were made by Mr J. Dinneeo, Iruant Inspector for the Wellington Education Board, during the course of an interesting interview, which the inspector courteously gave to a representative of the Wairarapa Age on Saturday afternoon Jast "Are you dealing with many cases of truancy this trip?" queried ths pressman. , "Yes, a fair number," was the reply. "In fact tGo cases were befoie the Court at Carterton during the week. Several more are to be heard in Eketahuna on Monday, and there is another case set down for hearing at Pahiatua on the 18th inst." "How do you find things in Masterton?" "I find the attendance at the Masterton school most satisfactory," stated the Inspector. "I have called on a few who have noi been quite up ot the mark and in each case have received promises of regular attendance."

"Are the attendances of the natives satisfactory," was next asked. "On the contrary," stated Mr Ditneen, "the Maoris of the Wafrarapa district ara making some unsatisfactory attendances. Unless the recent case dealt with at Carterton has the desired effect of improving attendances it is my intention to make a regular crusade against the particular defaulters, as I find nothing short of police Court proceedings will bring them to a sense of their responsibilities in this particular connection." Speaking generally, the Inspector further stated that the attendances as a whole in the district in the lower divisions of the schools is much affected by whooping cough of a mild nature. "This," he stated, "ia not peculiar to the Wairaraja alone, but to the whole of the Wellington district."