HARAPIPI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2690, 8 October 1889, Page 3

HARAPIPI.

Educational. —Mr T'i'-iler, M. Inspector of Schools, was over here on Thursday last to examine tho pupils of this school for standards. The examination was a very good one as all the children passed except one, who passed the following day at tho Te Rore school, this school being half-timo with that. This speaks well for half-time schools as some of the children have passed every year who only attended the one school, which means but six months schooling out of the twelve. A deputation of the Harapipi School Committee settlers waited on Mr Fidler, to speak to him of the action of the Te Rore School Committee who are anxious to have their school made a full-time one and removed nearer the bridge, and pointing out to him that tho school attendance would only be made up by taking children from other schools, viz., this and Paterangi, and that putting tho Board of Education to the expense of removing the Te Rore school-house was a piece of extravagance quite uncalled for, and that it would be simply for the greater convenience of one or two families who live near the Te Rore bridge, whose children are now getting the benefit of both schools, and it would cause the Harapipi school to be closed leaving eight or ten children without a school, as the nearest one is too far to attend except in fine weather. They also told the Inspector that the action that the chairman of the Harapipi School Committee was taking in the matter was quite without the authority of the committee he was chairman of, in fact up to the present it had been quite unknown to them.—(Own Correspondent.)