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New Zealand Mail, 8 February 1900, Page 58

After an exciting discussion before the Education Board, the Mangamaire School, which has been Sitting about like a dissolving view for about twelve months, has again reached a critical stage. The people of the district arc severely divided as to where the school should be placed, A long, lofty limestone range divides the main road and railway of the Forty Mile Bu-h from the valley of the Mangahao. Naturally, the families near the railway want the school convenient to the railway station, but the settlers of the valley, though ‘Jew and far between." have been vigorously trying to peril it oyer the range. The chairman, the inspectors and the members of the Board have all visited the locality in. detachments, but, like the settlers, they agreed differ.' The latest detachment, Messrs Hogg, Paterson and Buchanan, went over the ground on Monday, accompanied by the fathers and guardians. " They were split- up by rival buggies, and had a brisk tune travelling over opposition, courses. The final tug-of-war occurred in the Beardroom yesterday, when the chairman, Messrs Hogg, Feist and Bracley pi onounced themselves strongly in f,r. our of the site at the railway station, bur, were defeated by the other members of the Board, a resolution that the school be built on the.erowa of the range boras;