MARTON NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12710, 22 March 1911, Page 2

MARTON NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

The nostponed meeting of the Dfotnetj High School Committee was held last. Monday night. Present .--Rev Griffin (chairman), l>r Warden, Messrs E Floyd. R. Carey, R. Kilgour, and A. Vvay. (secretary). The report of 'the Head School Excursion Sub-Commiittee "was read and adopted, votes of thanks being accorded Messrs Way and Train for their able management of the day's outing. The headmaster reported as follows.:— - Attendance.—There is still some irregularity, due principally to sieknes? in the primary department, where tho averag-pjittenclance is 258 out of a possible 277. The highest attendance on any one half day during the mouili v.-as 208- In the secondary department, the attendance is. on the whole, very good, the average being 29 out of a possible 32. For the whole school we have thus a total attendance of 237 out of a possible 309.

Roll.—The numbers on the roll \n each department are as follows: Primary, 136 boys and 139 girls; total, 275: secondary. 22 boys and 11 girls, -total o.S. Grand total for the whole school, SOS.

S'lhool Work.—Various re-nrnmoxl-n.ents of the classes that seemed desirable > have now been made, -and the year's work has, in general, been fairly undertaken. In the secondary department classes in dressmaking and art will shortly begin work, arrangements having only jnsfc lately been made for the appointment of 'teachers in those

Cleaning of School.—This still presents difficulty, the caretaker pvido.nrly being hardly able to overtake the work in the- time at her disposal. A.s much i.s possible is done to help her in moving the <-'!».\sl-:fc a,t tiirtsryal-s -and keeping 'the floors free from loose papers.

Mr fniin reported that, tho school fife and drum band had play?! in the train going to Cnstlecliff, and had collected the sum of £1 lCs. As the band tendered this as a donation to the committee funds, Mr Gon*z r/nrod tl at feiwi boys be thanked for thc-ir thought-, fulness, and that t!ie sec.-ots'.ry he instructed to write to them to th.it effect. The following circular wns suhrnitieil and endorsed : Attention is called to trie special rural and domestic courses now open at the day classes held in Ihe Martqn Techr.iical School. Winn«rg of liroficiency certificates urds-r 15 \rnra on December 1. 1910 .-ivo entitled to free nlaccs and free rail'.vay passes prr.ctica.lly up to 19 years <<? »«*. ]'npil ? r.ow attend from as far as TJiilvii (U\ miles). Hunterville '17 milivs), Fordill C 23 miles), and intermedi i:e .statiojis For boys, besides English, Mcn!>ur«Mion, Latin _ (option.-/!), bookkeepi'ir, <-rt-.. thera is a special course of 3^ In.nr?; r.er week in agrieultur n science, v.hich includes dairying, pin it f !if«', t)io an.\iomy of farm stock, elanviturv surveying; also (Si hours) v.-o > lw.rk'and plan drawing, with praetica 1 construction f-f rnofs, srates. cart ''xlies. ladders, etc. For girls, at the snme time, courses in domestic economy, coo'cory. dre^niiiking, drawing, desigmnjr, vtc, in ad.'ition to the general '.'oiirso of studios These special courso studies are under several visiting oj.ocrt instructors. There are fo"r w*.'li-litt<d workrooms all with np^to-date appliances, a carefully wor.'ied g.ude.i, with plrts of roots, grain, grasses, and grocn cr< ps

besielcs a nev; 5-rierj plot fur farm operations adjoining the Gi'vornnient Experimental au-l testing grouiuls, inul within 10 miiii'.es of the >r.-h«.c-l. At the end of IJIO there wore not enough pupils :.o ii' Pet the speci.il demands of •employers anxious to engage them after ';aiv»«>? the above courses Ther>3 were many .successes also at public *xam:aii:! )'is, viz.^ inatricuJation, junior l'ivii Service, soniw ai.cljunior scholarships.