WAIPAWA SCHOOL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 816, 15 August 1885, Page 2

WAIPAWA SCHOOL.

[TO THE EDITOR.] Sir, —In your report of the last meeting of the Waipawa School Committee, you state, inter alia, that “ correspondence was read from tlie Education Board, forwarding result of annual examination, and stating that pupil teachers who hud failed to pass their examination might continue to teach without promotion , subject to special permission of the Board being first obtained."

I find in conversation witli some of your readers that ) T our printing this clause only of the so-called report—which was simply a printed circular, forwarded to all schools in the district of Hawke’s Bay—has been the cause of some misapprehension ; some persons being under the impression that the clause specially applied to this school, which another part of the same circular contradicts, as it therein states that all four of our pupil teachers passed, two out of the number gaining very high marks , and obtaining special mention for the gene red excellence of their work ; a distinction gained only in the case of more than one pupil teacher by the Napier, Gisborne, and Waipawa schools.—l am, &c., Head Master. FIRE-ENGINE FOR WAIPAWA. [to the editor. 1 Sir, —I am very much pleased to see that you are advocating the formation of a Fire Brigade, or, trying at any rate, to organize some system for the prevention of lire in Waipawa. I might be allowed to offer a few suggestions. Some five years ago I thought of the above, and got two qualified gentlemen to assist me in getting an estimate of the cost of engine, hose, etc. The suggestions that these gentlemen made were the following :—That a reservoir should be made of the hollow at the back of the Church of England by making a wall across the bottom that would form a natural reservoir, aud from that pipes could be laid on so that the town would also have a water supply, and the brigade would ho able to use the water on the high pressure system, and be also able to do without an engine. That schema, however, would be rather expensive. Another scheme put forward was to have o stationary fire-engine fixed somewhere on the banks of the river, so that the water supply would come from the river. An engine fixed, say at the back of the Mail Cilice, with a large length of hose, would, l think, be powerful enough to put out any fire

that might take place anywhere about the business parts of the town ; and with a still greater length of hose, and the natural fall of the town, the water would fall readily down towards the Railway Station or towards the bush. In addition to the stationary engine, a small mantiel engine might be got for the protection of premises upon the hills. I will endeavour to procure prices, etc., and will deal witti the matter more fully in a future issue.— I am. &c., Townsman.