WAIKATO HIGH SCHOOL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2403, 3 December 1887, Page 2

WAIKATO HIGH SCHOOL.

TO TUK KDITOH. Sir,— Your correspondent “Public Schoolman ” appears to be strongly and unwisely biassed against the elfort to make the Cambridge District High School more widereaching in its effects. Those who arc frying to effect this agree with him as to the desirability of a good High School and all that kind of tiling, but how is it to bo obtained ? In the present spirit of the House such a thing is not'to be thought of: and wiiat the Cambridge Committee is trying to do is to supply the present need for something better than the public schools. At present a District High .School exists hero, and the headmaster, wlio is a If.A. of Queen’s University, Ireland (certainly not a Brummagem degree, as your correspondent sneoringiy insinuates), is a most eiiieient teacher, as proved by the f)S per cent, of passes attained under iMr O’Sullivan’s inspection the oilier day. The Committee desire to increase its efficiency by securing a larger number of pupils, and have sent out circulars pointing out that the school exists, and that by sending their children to Cambridge parents may secure for them higher education at far less cost than by sending them to a distance, and at the same time maintain a watchful eye over them during the critical part of their lives, whilst their characters are being formed. If any better plan can be devised of meeting the educational requirements of the district, by all means let us hear of it. In any case the anti-Cambridge tone ot your correspondent’s letter is to bo deprecated. Waikato will never progress while such paltry and petty jealousies survive. As to combining a High School and School of Agriculture, the idea is ridiculous.—Yours truly, <l. W. Itu.SSFJ.L. Cambridge, December Ist, IXB7.