TWENTY YEARS AGO

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3277, 18 June 1943, Page 8

TWENTY YEARS AGO

PAEROA HIGH SCHOOL MANUAL AND TECHNICAL COUNTY COUNCIL SUPPORT (From the Hauraki Plains Gazette of June 18, 1923) At the meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council yesterday, a letter was read from the secretary of the Paeroa District High School Committee asking the council to assist in obtaining a manual and technical high school in Paeroa. The letter pointed out the disabilities under which the children were at present placed by having to travel a long railway journey. The committee asked that the council send a strongly worded resolution to the Minister of , Education asking that such school be established. The chairman said he was aware that the committee had made repeated representations to have a school established in Paeroa. He was of the opinion that what good the children gained by travelling to the manual school was lost morally. He considered that the Department of Education be urged to immediately establish a manual school in Paeroa. It appeared to him, from his own observations and inquiries that Paeroa was being deliberately side-tracked in the matter by the Department. ■Cr. Johnstone supported the resolution of the chairman. He said that the claims of Paeroa had apparently been ignored, and he agreed that the committee should be strongly supported in its most necessary nudertaking. The motion was carried unanimously.