THE JACKEYTOWN SCHOOL.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 107, 12 January 1881, Page 3

THE JACKEYTOWN SCHOOL.

TO THE ROITOR. >IK - \r :.,o j.sr.e -F l In: W:i".';:t»->ii :-^-^',C-, >;f :!„■} ;-Vl,[ „i Drj,..;u,\:V a .- :^>'-:-i:-.i l.v Mr Uvowm*. So':;v;, i: - V ' :o ■■'-. ■ ::■■;.:•-:■„-! :\,::v:\, h.-ul^l " T : ,e R;v:,l • ; ; ; ; .;->; S' '.-.>> :■.! .;■!■. .V-Mi-.,w;!," ! nci'l^n ':r;.i ■:ny i -.- ■■ i ■ ' - ■■( ru,-i: i-vj.u. •■[■•. i-.ut 1 c.,ii:i..» ■!;!■■■■■">■ -=■! ■''■■ i!i ! l ••! !•":>'■•;!•; l - fc:i -se'pu ii?ii«--i \\y Mr Ijr wtie to g.i utjci if r iju.'tfd. Mr :)■;!. MVitiliiii iha^iie tvi-uiuinendt'rl by i '■)'• ' Kiiiiiiim't' i* surnaw'mi tveru mile from t!>t» Kaivre K-uilway dst:ition. On the Jflckeyfi'«'» silo, oi'- i i?|>tinj» Air Hi -!i i>- •:ls-.»ii l^, I ■'til i not t<ee nt,y si^us of (lue)!;n»< near jv :!'• >IlM.| t')P .-»it-t*. '\'.,V> \'>\:-\8 HIP. «1 1 11:1 illg II '■-"'•*" jiublic roml i»pp :>«ite the sile, there »n-e ■ ii-'inctlv visible t.welre iimiHes — the fiirilie.-t off is tbe Karere school- house unrl teacher'^ resi'.ien.-e — ;ind six of those hou-es are within sixty cbuina of the proposed site, and tit present we could send sixteen children to the school if erected there. I would advise tbe Education Board that tbe next time to furnish him with a pair of specs. In regard to the site at Mr Sharman's, Mr Browne sajs it is well situated on a main line of road, running at right angles with the railway. .Allow me to say that the line is a bye-road. " I took down the number of children who would attend a school if erected m this position, and by a curious concidence they also amounted l<> twenty four." This is untrue, as wns p..in!eJ .v' to Mr Browne at the time by . ik> of -he committee. The lowest number at t-ln? site at Mr Sharman's was sixteen, and ut Mr Richardson's thiriy-two That the Eduction Board knows full well, as a abort time ago a memori". was sent m to tbe Board s'-*ned by more than two-thirds of the householders approving of the sito at Mr Richardson's, and also the number of children who would attend either school. How our memorial h — been treated with such contempt, I am at a loss to uuderatand. Mr Brown again, and I am done. " Not far from, and facing this sit.; (at Mr Sharman's) ia a cleai !ng of about seventy acre*, which tbe settlers stated may be sold and occupied at. any time." Not so ;it is a Native settlement, and has been occupied by them for the past twenty yeors, and there are no sizns of them selling it. I may be eaid that, I have no interest m tbe school, but if erected at Mr Richardson*, fourteen of my grand children will attend it — Your* &c. D. M'Ewss.