SCHOOL COMMITTEE REPORTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16979, 16 April 1917, Page 3

SCHOOL COMMITTEE REPORTS

HIGH STREET SCHOOL.

®°, ufnual report of the High S tree t fccnoot (Jommitteo is as follows; Tho average attendance was 535, being an mcveaso of 16 over that of 1915. Tho percentage attendanco worked out at '93, as against 92 for tho previous year. Judged iu tho light of the inspector's report, tliero is an>pk' evidence to justify tho statement, that llie bead master and his comoetont stalf are striving asciduously to upho'd the pustigc ot tae school and to make it second to none among the primary schools in the district of Otago. At tho December examinations A list or o'l3hca and Thelma Paterson won National and Hume Leadbettcr a imrsary of sgs. Biblo lessons have regularly been given, and tho clergymen who conduct thorn aro worthy of our best thanks and gratitude. In the infant department tbo work is of exceptional merit, which is already makin"itself felt in tho lower standards, it may bo ■ pointed out that a " sand pit 35 is now osfcablisned within tho grounds. Iho School Fife and Drum Band, under tho ab!o attention ot' .Mr Dickison, has more than maintained its. reputation. About 200 past pupils of tho school have joined tho various Expeditionary Forces Some of these have xnado the supremo sacrifice, and a list of those (probably incomplete) is given:—Clivo Statliiim Tom uonniston, John Laidlaw, James Cameron James Harper, Will RjiJlinshaw, Joseph iJawo, Harold Hanson, Barold Hail, Davvl Ha ; «, Douglas Park, I-luntly Reynolds, lorn Mcrccr, Earlo Robertson, Others again, have been rewarded for valour in tao field, -IJki following l is tho list: — IjicnLcnmit Arch Henderson, D.C.M Lieutenant Waiter Ibbotson, DOM' Lieutenant ..Joseph Edwards, D.CM 'and mentioned m rhspatclies Gunner ' William Brown, M.M. Modal), Lieutenant feulney Wren and .Surgeon Alan Church, M.M. In atactics and school games the boj'S liavo upheld tho traditions of tho school, being successful i u every branclx iu which they have entoroi