Original Correspondence.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1031, 27 April 1894, Page 6

Original Correspondence.

THE BALCLFTHA HIGH SCHOOL. TO THE EDITOH. SIR, — Accompanying this find copy of report of the committee of the Tokomairiro High School which will,doubtless, be read with interest by many of your readers, showing, as it does, the practical form in which education iB conducted in that school and forming a marked contrast to the state of matters existing in onr own school." — I am, etc., Jambß Wilson Wilson.

The Tokomairiro report states : — Miss M'Laren has carried on the cookery classes with great skill and success during the year. The girls do the actual work of cooking by fours and fives in turn, the rest taking down the recipes, receiving instructions as to the methods, observing the way the dishes are cooked, and in many instances cooking similar dishes for themselves at home. Kindergarten forms a Tory interesting part of the lessons of the infant department, and is practised BTery day, to the great pleasure and amusement of the little ones. Practical analysis of soils is carried on in the agricultural chemistry claas. From twelve to sixteen boys form four working sets, each set under a captain, and on two afternoons a week they learn how to find out the qualities of soils. From the subsidy given by tbe Government about £5 worth of chemical appliances have been added to the laboratory. Mr Archer continues to carry on to successful issues the training of the boys in the handling of tools, as the exhibition of work at the end of the year abundantly indicated. Typewriting is now an accomplished fact. From part of the proceeds of the kinderspiel a Remington typewriter was purchased, ami towards the end of 1893 a start was made. The Government gave £ for£ on this expenditure, with which a Yost typewriter, one of the newest in the market, has just been obtained. As there are twenty pupils learning, both are kept well employed. By means of typewriter, and the mimeograph, and under able editorship, a School Magazine is published monthly at the low price of threepence. Parentß will encourage thr pupils in their literary efforts by subscribing to the Magazine or purchasing copies occasionally.