DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16075, 13 March 1923, Page 8

DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOL.

TE KARAKA INSTITUTION INSPECTED.

The recently-inaugurated secondary school at Te Karaka was visited yesterday by Mr. G. F. Roach, chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, and Mr. Boland, architect to the Education Department. Air. Roach addressed the scholars in both the primary and secondary grades. The secondary grade is at present housed in a church building, and there arc some thirty-three pupils with a possibility of an increase shortly. Speaking to the pupils, Air. Roach stated that at present it was impossible to give the district high school a building of its own, but lie urged the pupils to carry on in the grade, not only for a single year, but for two and three years. Thus, with new pupils coming in all the time, there would grow up a thoroughly permanent institution worthy of modern buildings and a bigger staff. He advised the pupils of the primary school to give their parents no peace until it was agreed that they should bo allowed to pass through the secondary course.. To the parents, Mr. Roach added that it was their duty to let the children remain at school whilo the educational facilities were able to keep them engaged. Discussing the To Ivaraka institution last evening, Air. Roach told a reporter that Te Karaka presented an opportunity that would be found nowhere else in the district, for the development of a district secondary school. If such an institution could not succeed there, it would not succeed anywhere in Poverty Bay or on the East Coast. Everything, of, course, depended on the parents’ attitude, and if their support was forthcoming, a good future could bo prophesied for the secondary grade.