AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 7 October 1912, Page 5

AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL

MEE'ITXG OF COMMITTEE. A meeting of the Mastertcn Agricultural High School Establishment Committee was held on Saturday afternoon last, there being present eie Rev A. T. Thompson (in the chair), Dr Cook and Messrs H. C. Robinson, C. E. Daniell. E. Hale, J. Morris, and J. P. Prentice. Considerable discussion took place on the position that presented itself in view of the recent Trust Lands Trust election. Mr C. E. Daniell counselled the committee to go slow. He advocated taking steps to acquire tlhe school reserve at Lansdowne for the purposes of an agricultural high school. Mr A. H. Vile, who was present by invitation, gave certain information in regard to the school reserve and the attitude of the Education Board in the matter of the agricultural high school. Mr H. C. Robinson stated that he had written tihe Minister of Education in regard to certain matters, but had not yet received a reply. It was eventually decided that the resolution passed by the recent meeting of delegates, together with a resolution from this meeting, |V forwardx'd, the Minister of Education, urging that provision he mad? this session for the disestablishment of District High Schools in favour of Agricultural Higdi Schools. It was also decided to make certain inquiries from the Education Board in regard to High Schools, .and to suspend securing the names of children for a High School in the meantime.