A WAIKATO HIGH SCHOOL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2402, 1 December 1887, Page 2

A WAIKATO HIGH SCHOOL.

TO THK KIjJTOIm .Silt,—! received a circular lr«*xn Mr Sanrent, inking me if I was inclined to send one or more of my Alias to the Cambridge High. School, as.'if sufficient encouragement was given, the Cambridge School Committee were pr.-jand to enlarge the masters house to enable him to t?ke in b ririorv i had thought that both the Hamiitaa and Cambridge so called High Scho-gA had collapsed —had indeed h"j*ed so; for then it might have been possible that a M aikalo High School, in conjunct- •:» with a School of Agriculture, &.ulii be established in s' acn convenient central f-otitioii. It is n.> ttrattempting to bolster up these at- > 1 li' US of High Schools such as wc have had in Waikato, which are only a v-t e mild extension of the oidinary public primary schools, and are presided «vn by the saine teachers. Moreover, if it were only for the fact that Native Land Courts are still held at <>- bridge, with all the demoralising iiigWvnces and temptations for youth accompanying a. native camp pitched in the town or its vicinity, 1 as a parent sho’ght be loth to send my sons to a public school with such stir foundings and -o 1 think would ]lan-nts either in .\ticK!and or the country. -Sir, what w.,* want i< a lfi;rh with • jualith-d leathery L-Mixif? »tk.r i}i.iii 11.-uii m ii,vm and if with >::ch a 1 ;Ka >L*h;» ■! "f Ajric*>ltu*<*. &lwu Waikato wf h.ne uL last ii.udj >tcp in advance iu **•« IVc nnt.t lo k ! < '.I.- County Councils for the initiation of -aril aiu o'- lac-lit. "lira cle., A I’t f.uc S<vex lmu:- - , Te Av.-am-itu. Nov. nu.