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the former small and inconvenient school-rooms, will have some effect in bringing a larger and more continuous attendance to both divisions of this school.
Motueka, 2nd Division: Mrs. HOMANN, Mistress.—The children being periodically drafted from this division to the upper school at a very early age, but little is attempted beyond the elements of reading and slate writing. These are carefully taught, and the scholars are very orderly.
Pangatotara: Mr. BISLEY, Master.—This, though one of our smaller schools, is very successfully taught by the present master. I was well pleased with the care shown in keeping the classes at work simultaneously, and with the perfect order maintained, without any sacrifice of work. The geography and arithmetic may be mentioned as being exceptionally, good.
Riwaka: Mr. GILPIN.—This school sustains a great loss by the resignation of its present teacher, to whose singular tact and unwearied exertions, extending over a period of many years, the very efficient state of the school, which I have formerly pointed out, and which still continues, is entirely due.
Takaka.—This is one of the few schools in which little or no progress has been made during the last two years. The teacher, who has held the appointment during that period, has left one of the most backward of our country schools pretty much as he found it. But it will be a matter of some difficulty for the ablest teacher to do much in a district where, partly from bad roads and floods, though in a still greater degree from the carelessness of parents, the scholars do not attend, on an average, three days a week. If a school is manifestly languishing, the true remedy is not to withdraw the scholars, but, after a reasonable trial of what can be effected by regular attendance, to remove the master who cannot then plead that he has been unfairly dealt with.
Long Plain, Takaka: Mrs. M'DONALD, Mistress.—I was gratified, on my last visit, to see the progress that had been made in this little school, which has been established only 18 months. Though little is attempted beyond the rudiments of reading and writing, these are carefully taught, and as the scholars are all very young, the school will meet the requirements of the neighborhood for some time to come.
Motupipi: Mr. RAY, Master.—Clifton continues to take a high rank among our schools, in respect of both discipline and learning. The reading of the younger scholars is particularly good, the handwriting and arithmetic being also of more than average merit.
Collingwood.—This school, which had been falling off for some time, both in numbers and in other respects, was closed when I last visited the Massacre Bay Districts. It has since been reopened and reorganized by the Rev. H. Halcombe, but too recently to give me an opportunity of reporting on its present condition.
I am, &c.,
W. C. HODGSON,
Inspector of Schools.
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6 names identified
- Homann (Mrs.), Mistress at Motueka 2nd Division
- Bisley (Mr.), Master at Pangatotara
- Gilpin (Mr.), Teacher at Riwaka
- M'Donald (Mrs.), Mistress at Long Plain, Takaka
- Ray (Mr.), Master at Motupipi
- H. Halcombe (Reverend), Reorganized Collingwood school
- W. C. Hodgson, Inspector of Schools