Children Of The Outback Go To Unique School
’Per Press Association. Copyright ,3 NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.
From isolated back country farms, from lighthouses and from the most inaccessible parts cf the Dominion, 170 young people arrived at New Plymouth on Saturday to be taught academic subjects that most children learn in dally schools, and, more important still, to bo taught how to play. They are attending a special vacation course for pupils of the Correspondence School in New Zealand.
The pupils range in age from five tc 21, and from the primer classes to these completing the matriculation ind higher leaving certificate examinations, and they are drawn from every part of the country. Months of organisation and planning were necessary to ensure their attendance at the school and to draw up a programme of work that will be most oeneficial and get the maximum of instruction into the two weeks available. Every one cf the pupils of the Correspondence School is isolated from railroad and other recognised means of travel, and the first thing they had to do was to get to the main line oi communication. Some walked miles, while others used horses, carts, motor cars or any other form cf transport available. Even then they still had to travel hundreds of miles to get to New Plymouth.
On Monday of last week, the teachers of, the school set out for the various locations. One went to Northland and assembled the children at Whangarei before b/inging them tc Auckland, where they caught a special train. Another teacher went to the Poverty Bay district and his contingent bivouaced on Friday night at the Napier Boys’ High School before coming on to Marton to join the train carrying the South Island, Wellington and Wairarapa children. It was a triumph of organisation and there was not a single hitch.
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Northern Advocate, 9 May 1939, Page 4
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