School Children and the Exhibition.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1728, 2 September 1885, Page 2

School Children and the Exhibition.

The following charges have just been decided on in connection with the visit of the school children to the Exhibition Children will be conveveil by train from a’l parts of the Wiiirnrnpa at one shilling each. The fares for parents and leacheis accompanying them will be: Fiorn M.-t-tcr ton, Cmtertoii and Greytown, Os ; from Feather. lon ami Cross Creek, ss. Additional carriages will be attached to the ordinary morning trains from the Wairarapa, returning from Wflitif ton at 4.25 iu the afternoon. We arc not surprised to hear that in several of tire schools the teachers icfuse to accompany the children and take the responsibi. lity of their returning safe and sound, while having to pay such a fare themselves In one of our largest schools Die whole of the teachers have resolved to have nothing te do with the school excursion trip, and under the circumstances it is a poor look out for the scholars seeing the Exhibition. Can we wonder at such a resolve? At an enormous expense Government will at times put on a steamer and give members of Par. lisment a free holiday trip, but when it cornea to the little children in country schools who seldom have an opportunity of seeing anything of the world outside their district, they want the pound of flesh. It is only after much badgering that the children’s fare has beta brought down to a shilling ; bnt the teachers ate charged 5s and 6s. Every certified teacher should be allowed to go free to look after their young charges, and until this has been done or the fain considerably reduced, the echool children ol tiro Wairarapa will probably net be able to visit the Exhibition at all,