Makino School.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2198, 18 October 1913, Page 2

Makino School.

At tho Makino school concert on Thursday night the Chairman of the Education Board, who presided, spoke briefly about tho school grounds. Me pointed .out that the .school and residonco were built on a single acre of ground, a relic of the good old days when the educational authorities considered that they had completed their duty to tho child by.having a roof erected to shelter him and a teacher to give tho necessary instruction. Nowadays, however, modern requirements inclncilL! good plnying ground.-, lor the pupils and a respectable area for garden and experimental plots. It was a pity that the school was surrounded by small holdings but -he thought tln-'y should endeavour to secure a f«w acres of land in the locality, to which the school could be moved. It was not fair that in many localities the children thotild have every advantage suggested by the marked progress in education, while those attending tho Makino school were'not. provided with any help outside of the school work, which, excellent though it was, could not possibly bo as usafupand as efficient as if the outside aids prominent i/; most of the schools,in the district were available. Ho urged tho residents to do what they could to remove the reproach now existing from their school, and promised that whatever c-.mo'int was raised locally would bo subsidised by un adidtiona-l sum by tho educational authorities. The audience greatly appreciated the remarks, ■tyhkih were fi'QCUtGtttly punctuated by applause.