THE KARORI SCHOOL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

Evening Post, Volume XX, Issue 285, 6 December 1880, Page 3

THE KARORI SCHOOL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

Sib—Every resident at Karori, who has the advancement of that plaoe at heart, mußt regret that the Board of JEducation ha 3 only determined to set aside £70 for patching up the dilapidated old building now used for a public school for children of both sexes. The monoy, if devoted to this purposo, will be simply wasted. Separate schools, iv distinct localities, for boys and girls are urgently required in this district. They need not be pretentious and costly buildings, but should be simple, substantial, and commodious. Failing to obtain these, the next best thing tho Board oould do would be to sweep away the remnant of an old lunatic asylum, and to erect in its stead proper semi-detached schools, under one roof, with separate fenced-in play-grounds and out-offices. 'I he building which now does duty for a school has been condemned by a thoroughly unbiassed inspector (Mr. Restell) as unfit for that purpose, aid calculated to ronder nugatory tho best efforts of the most qualified teacher. Mariy stables are more comfortable, and in the winter season teachers and pupils are > laid up with colds and sore throats, occasioned by its draughty condition. The fittings appear, also, to have been designed as instruments of torture by some bright genius, who wished to render the ascent of tho hill of knowledge as arduous as possible to youthful minds and bodies. Thousands of pounds have been spent in tho city of Wellington —in one instance it has been said, prematurely —in the erection of schools of almost palatial appoarance. Wo all pay indirectly towards the cost of these structures, why then should a few hundred pounds be begrudged to those country districts which stand so sorely in need of necessary expenditure? Education, free and compulsory, is doubtless designed to be a blessing to the rising generation, but tho system may be carried out amidst such inimical surroundings and obstacles as to become a enrse, moral and physical. I am, &c, C. M. Igglssdbn, Architect. Karori, 3rd December, 1880.

"What may be well considered a hasty marriage was celebrated by the Registrar not a hundred miles from Greytown on Friday. A station hand from the coast, who had been staying at a certain hotel for a day or two, was smitten with the housemaid — proposed — was accepted — bought the ring — and was married. Rumor is cruel enough to say (adds the Wairarapa Daily) the parties had not spoken to each other thirty-six hours previously. May they have much happiness, and never experience the old saw, " marry in haste and repent at leisure."