MASTERTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8014, 9 December 1904, Page 5

MASTERTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

Special Works Authorised.

At last night's meeting of the Masterton School Committee, Mr R. Brown (chairman), Rev. D. J. Murray and Mr J. Heyhoe, who were appointed to confer with Mr W. H. Jackson in reference to attending to the needs of the District High School, submitted a report making recommendations for special works to be carried out, involving a total expenditure of £50. In view of the fact that there is little probability of a High School being established in Masterton in the near future, it is the intention of the Committee to make the most of the existing conditions in making the school one of the most up-to-date and bestappointed of its class in New Zealand. Special works or improvements-, which from time to time it may be deemed desirable to carry out, will be attended to by the Committee already named, whose business it will be to confer with Mr Jackson and make their recommendations to the School Committee. It was recommended, last evening, inter alia that hand and eye training (brush work) —as recommended by the Education Department—should be instituted free of cost to the scholars. For this an initiatory expenditure of approximately, £5 would beinvolved,the property to be retained by the schoo 1 . The sum of £15 was aho recommended to be spent in special class reader?, as recommended in the new regulations. These will be used in standards 8, 4, 5 and 6 and will also be recaiued as the property of the school. These are books of such a character as will be calculated to encourage a desire for reading among the scholars, popular subjects having been chosen. An expenditure of £'60 for asphalting'and tarring and sanding ai both schools is also included in the recommendations. The work will include flushing with tar and sand both the boys' aod gh'.s'play-grounds at the mxin school and also at the side school, and the formation of gas-lime footpaths at the side school. The recommendations, which were made after full investigation and consideration, were adopted by the School Committee, and will be given effect to within the next few weeks. Other improvements are contemplated and will be carried out as funda permit.