YOUNG EXCURSIONISTS

Southland Times, Issue 19822, 19 March 1926, Page 9

YOUNG EXCURSIONISTS

SCHOOL CHILDREN AND THE EXHIBITION. ARRANGEMENTS WELL IN HAND. Another meeting of the committee set up for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements for sending school children • from Standards 4,5, and 6 to the Exhibit;on on Monday, March 29, for a three days’ visit, w’as held in the office of Mr A. W. Jones yesterday evening. Those premt were—Messrs A. W. Jones (chairman), R. M. Strang, D. A. Strachan, H. B. Fari i all, G. Featherstone, J. Hain, W. S. i Robinson, W. Sawerg, C. Macky, D. M. I Greig, Mrs Williams, Miss Hardy and the ; secretary, Mr Andrew McCulloch. The chairman in his report said that I since the last meeting of the committee the head mistress of the Stewart Island school had been communicated with, with a view to ascertaining how many pupils could be sent from the school to the Exhibition, the > children to be carried free of cost on the I Theresa Ward. I The number of pupils travelling to the j Exhibition from the Invercargill and subI urban public schools will be — Middle 63 Waihopai 61 South 60 S». George 52 North 50 W aikiwi 23 Wallacetown 23 West Plains Il Total .... 343 The chairman stated that advice had been received from Mr Strack, of the Education Court at the Exhibition, saying that accommodation had been arranged for not more than 650 pupils. It was decided to ask the pupils of the Marist Brothers’ school and St. Catherine’s Girls’ College to join in with the excursion. The matter of the inclusion of other country schools was left in the hands of the chairman with power to act. Considerable discussion arose as to whether children who had friends in Dunedin be allowed to stay with them and at the same time do the Exhibition along with the children who would be accommodated by the Education authorities. Mr Strang moved that all the children must stay with the party except in exceptional cases, and that the person in charge be vested with discretionary pow’ers to deal with such cases.—Carried.