JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1688, 19 November 1925, Page 5

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

PROPOSAL FOR TE AWAMUTU. FURTHER SUPPORT ASSURED. Education affairs affecting Te Awamutu and neighbourhood were referred to at the meeting of the Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday evening, when it was claimed that as the Chamber stands for the advancement of all projects to ensure the betterment of Te Awamutu and district, it should give its support to the latest project. Improved facilities for education affected a wide district, for the establishment of the proposed Junior High School would obviate the necessity of parents sending their children to Auckland or Hamilton for advanced education. Such a school, it was claimed, would enable a pupil to obtain a matriculation pass at the one school. Te Awamutu was very conveniently situated for the purpose in view, and if the neighbouring districts supported the action of the local Dis* trict High School Committee and the Board of Education there would be a Junior High School established here in the near future. IMr Jourdain explained the proposal to establish a Junior High .School in Te Awamutu, and detailed the result of the recent conference of committeemen from the schools in Te Awamutu and neighbourhood. As secretary of the Te Awamutu District High School Committee, and acting at the request of the recent conference, he had written to Mr E. C. Banks, of Matamata, asking if be can spare the time to address meetings in several of the country districts in support of the proposal No reply from Mr Banks had yet come to hand, but if he could not come a delegation of Te Awamutu 'School committeemen and other residents in .favour of the project would address meetings arranged by country school committees. A sub-committee had been set up by the conference to arrange details. , Mr Warburton said be understood the matter of financing the scheme had not vet been gone into, but the Board of Education was convinced that le Awamutu was a very suitable centre for establishing a Junior High School. The Board, or rather the Education Department, had property in the town that could be disposed of to provide a good portion of the cost. muring the resulting discussion it was mentioned that there has heen no evidence so far of opposition to the Xme by country school teachers, Wiethe"advantages of the scheme far outweighed -any possible disaci quoted the conversation he had had with the chairman of the local DJH.S. Committee in the matter of telling the parents of children in the neighbouring districts the rlptails Of the scheme. He hah b im Sid to and transport, and was'cohBdent he would tad little oi-no trmMe in doing this, tor he had alread) X-S-ant "anted n.ore details o< '»"->* Wanted to Te ' atS sVo°ols provided Ser education than the present syoX Haselden said it ™VflTso£e best tuition coald not resa t Ironi some or 'he overcrowded standards ot the Te wamntu School, where there were It understood, over eighty seholaro m -^sSofs'Xre^sevr which their tnture avocation in We gS Whe'n he 4°f'a student there. »nS said he was merely seeking m?ormaUon. He thought if the Junior High Schools averaged more than 20 per cent, of matriculation passes it was worthy of support. ...„„« W Mter some further discussion it was decided to leave the matter in the hands of the committee appointed at the recent conference of district school committeemen.