SCHOOL MATTERS

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 817, 4 February 1903, Page 2

SCHOOL MATTERS

(To the Editor of the Times.) Sik, —Are we to consider the dilatoriness of the Education Board in regard to Mangapapa school as another instance of their indifference to the wants of this end of the district ? No wonder the settlers of Mangapapa are indignant, after having been led to believe that the school would be ready when school work was resumed in the district after the midsummer holidays, to find when the children (some of wnom had travelled a couple of miles) arrived, the buildiDg was still in the hands of the contractors and no furniture or fittings ready. We may well ask, who is to blame ? It is now some months since the Board decided, on the petition of the settlers, to make Mangapapa a separate school district, yet up to the present they have not gazetted the boundaries or taken steps to have a committee elected as provided by the Act. And this remind.? me, sir, that some months ago I read an account in the Times of a meeting of representatives of School Committees in this district, at which the question of a separate district was discussed, and a committee appointed to draw up a report on the same. Could you, sir, enlighten me as to what conclusions they came to I am, efco., Home Rules.,