Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1894. A LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4643, 9 February 1894, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1894. A LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL.

SECOND EDITION

Some ye&rs ago a hoys' high school was established in Masterton with a fair amount of sweeps, but the school was purely on private lines and received no consideration from any public body. The fact that the income of the Town Land Trust will bo largelj augmented this year suggests to ui how desirable it would bo to re-oper a boys' high school here on publii lineß. The whole district, including Featherston, Greytown, Carterton Ekotahuna and Pahiatua, needs i central high school, and why ehoulc not Mascrton supply the demand The Town Land Trust after this yea: is wealthy enough to endow suoh i school, and we have always held th view that it would bn better for th Trustees to do some great work for th community than to fritter away it funds over minor casual application for assistance. Our suggestion is no that the Trust should upend its fund for the benefit oftbe wealthier olasse in the district, but thai it shouli , enable the brightest boys in tlii primary school to continue thei education free of cost. Every yea the Town Lands Trustees migh , select by examination or some othe satisfactory test half a dozen of th best scholars in the Masterton publi school and pay their fees for them a a local high school. The Trustee could afford to provide for at leas twenty scholars at such a school, am wo are confident that if they gave guarsntee of twenty permanent pupil a competent master could he found t opeu a local high school and depen upon private support for any furthe income wliicb bo might need. Th Trustees'niiijut lay {ho foundation c one of the largest and best educations institutions of this kind in Nei Zealand and by so doiug expend i the best advantage the revenueswhiol they have primarily to administer foi educational purposes. It is, however really a matter for the parents o:

Masterton to decide, because if these parents came to the'conclusion that a High School, in which twenty of tbeir best and brightest boys could receive a high class education free of all expense to themselves and at the cost of an educational fund, which is to all practical intents and purposes their own property, was a desirable thing to have, the Trustees could not refuse to give it them. Wo submit the idea merely as ono worth thinking over aiid talking over, and we would be glad to receive any suggestions which would improve upon it.