DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11340, 2 May 1912, Page 5

DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

RURAL COURSE POPULAR,

The annual report of the Wellington Education Board contains the following reference to District High Schools: —"The number of District High Schools remained as in 1910, with but slight change in the attendance. Owing to tiie enlargement of the Girls' High School to accommodate free place pupils, the Newtown District High School was disestablished as from 31st December. The Board's inspectors report an improvement in the quality of the work done by tho pnpiis who undertook tho Rural course. They write: 'The Rural Science Course inaugurated in 1910 has fully justified its establishment, aud good work has been done, and this year there has been keen competition for the Board's B or senior scholarships, reserved for those taking the Rural course. Wo were specially pleased to find the general improvement in the practical work, as evidenced iv these scholarships examinations.' A movement at Petone for the introduction of the Rural course into an industrial centre and a second movement for the establishment of an Agricultural College for the Wairarapa, so that the District High School Rural course may bo continued to a satisfactory conclusion, are clear evidences of the favourable impression created by the rural work already accomplished."