SECONDARY EDUCATION.

Wairarapa Age, 21 March 1925, Page 5

SECONDARY EDUCATION.

ACADEMIC AND TECHNICAL. ONE BOARD FOB ALL. At yesterday’s meeting of -the,.Wairarapa High School Board a Utter was received from the Masterton Technical School Board agreeing to another conference (of the two full boards) on the question of amalgamation. The chairman (Dr. G. H. Scholefield) said that they should determine their attitude as to the amalgamation of schools or the amalgamation •of the boards. He favoured the latter. The last conference came to no decision owing to the question of dual control.

Mr C. E. Daniell said his idea all along had been that secondary education in Masterton, in all its phases, should be under one board of 7 or 8 earnest men, instead of 20 as there were at present. The proposed junior high school would also be under the same board.

The chairman said that the original proposal was the amalgamation of the two boards, but it seemed that the Department had hurried them too much towards amalgamating the schools. At Palmerston North and elsewhere the High School and Technical School were under the one board. He thought amalgamation of the two boards would- be a distinct advance. Mr H. C. Bobinson said the difficulty was that, when the staff under the director of the technical school was to be used by the Principal of the High School, or vice versa, there must be one head in control. Once they started to amalgamate the schools there must be one head only.

The chairman said that the proposal now was the amalgamation of the boards, and not of the schools.

The chairman was authorised to arrange with the chairman of the Technical School Board as to the date of the conference, between the two boards, with the two principals present in an advisory capacity.