DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1920, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

PUNGAREHU. (From Our Own Correspondent.) On the returned soldiers' settlement at Parihakft there are a number of industrious young farmers, and various improvement works are being carried on. Several are just beginning to secure returns from their land, and should do well In the future. Pungarehu generally should greatly benefit from the cutting up of this large estate. Agriculturally, everything is getting along well here now, and plough teams far and near are kept continually going in preparation of land for cropping. The heavy rain which'fell recently has caused farmers tte greatest satisfaction, the fields having taken on a spring-like appearance. The' Repatriation Committee is experiencing difficulty in findings openings for men wishing to take, up farm work. One would think that there are plenty of openings for this kind of steady and willing men, and thSt farmers would be only too glad of the opportunity to utilise their services and at the same time teach them the work, especially when the Department offers a liberal subsidy. Tho snxlety concerning the various forms of sickness which recently passed over Warea, Puniho and Oka to, has somewhat abated. Fewer cases are now being reported, and the several districts are rapidly regaining their normal state. An accident which might easily have terminated fatally, occurred on Tuesday of last week. Two men, Messrs. Revel! and Thomson, of Warea, were returning home on a motor-cycle after a ride to Okato. Revell was driving, and Thomson riding behind. When edeavoring to turn at a difficult angle, Reveli lost aontrol of the machine, and the two men were thrown to the ground, and sustained injuries which necessitated hopsital treatment. Considerable interest is being manifested In the grand ball, which is to take place atiWarea shortly in aid of the Hall Com-' mittee's funds, and preparations are already proceeding to pake the gathering unique. A number of local residents are, J understand, taking steps to inaugurate a tennis club, and It is probable. If prospects are satisfactory, that a meeting of all interested will be called shortly. Mr. S. Armstrong has disposed of his property to a local purchaser —at a satisfactory figure. Efforts are being made to form' a Dairy Factory Employees' Union on the coast, and, a meeting in this connection was held in the Church of England school-room in Opunake on Thursday evening, 23rd Inst. Tho drawing lip of a wages schedule occupied the greater part Of the evening. Matters of general interest were also discussed briefly. Education, as a science, must not be confounded with mere teaching, for though both have a common object in view ■ the teaching *may be next to useless, while true education cannot fall to be productive of satisfactory results. It may be admitted that In the last few years far more progress has been made in discovering and acting upon the right lines of education than has been the case in the earlier period, and yet the groping days are not over. The Vrea.t fault In the recent past has been a striving to reduce educational enterprise to a system, a proceeding that is radically wrong. The science of education is a process of growth, an active living force, which, of necessity, must be continually changing, according to the actual experience with children by the experience of others, and the conditions under which children live. In oiher words, it is by studying children individually, and the circumstances that are daily affecting their lives, tlu.t a teacher can arrive at the imost effective means of dealing with problems as Ihey arrive. The many 1 can teach on tho lines generally prescribed, but only the few can educate, that is, guide the child into the right way of unfolding and expanding its intellect and laying a foundation ,6f future good citizenship. It is so easy to work on wrong lines that the wonder is the average result of our educational system is «o satisfactory. The very word edui cation Indicates leading, and not driving. The needs of the future are likely to be "so pressing that evervti.,.. should be done to raise the scale of Inidi* end. for thereby alone will the best interests of the Dominion be served.