READERS’ OPINIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10710, 6 October 1928, Page 3

READERS’ OPINIONS.

harbor Works

(To The Euitor)

•! Sir, —Reierr.ng to your leader oil the above’ subieejt, I think the members of the Harbor Hoard want shaking up a bit —.l tlnnk .they are losing a lot of timo in not pushing on with the completion of tho diversion wall, 'iney .-mould get. to work on it at once, just leaving enough space open to allow the entrance of small steamers to the town wharf. If they did this .it .would' save about : three months, as they reckon it will take six months to complete the wall. Why is the Korua lying idle when she Plight be employed digging out the papa that has been blasted along the Cook Quay ? It has get to he dug out some day, so"'‘why not now ? i don't think the John Town ley is capable »of digging out the inner basin to 18 feet in hard papa; she can •suck mud up, but not un bias ted papa. This work should have been complete before the Korua was stopped. If the gap in the wall was only half the size it is now, arid a big Hood comes doivn, a good deal or the water would be forced doivn the new eat and help to clear out some of the sand that is now blocking it up. I was pleased to see mat Messrs G. Smith and Broadhurst were in favor of having the gap l closed as soon as possible. Tins bog y about range is all bunkum, aim the new well from the end 01 the groyne to the end of the diversion cut will make very litter dillevence in the range.—L am, yours etc., ■ WATCHMAN. EDUCATION PROBLEMS. (To The Editor). Sir—ln your report of my address on Education tnere are one or two points whore I have not made myself clear. T do not blame the gramophone for our former neglect of music. What I wished to do was to praise the gramophone as one ol tho most powerful factors 111 placing at tho disposal of every heme the opportunities of hearing the world's finest music, it is a great factor in the musical revival now taking place. As to the numbers continuing their education beyond j-±, though it is now suggested that all pupils should‘enter secondary scnoois at 12, the percentage entering postprimary schools now is remarkably high; 80 per cent of Std. VI. passed the proficiency examination, 60 per cent of these continued their education; i.e., 50 per cent of these who entered Std. VI. passed into- other schools; and allowing for the leakage of those who never reached Std. YL, probably about 40 per cent of those who entered the primary school also entered the postprimary school. .L’or a system based on primary education up to Std. VI. tliis has few equals—if any'. —l am, yours etc., J. W. MeILRAITH.