Logbook - 1905

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1905 

19th January 

Arrangements were made by the School Committee to take all the children to Ngapopatu for the day, Nearly all the children in the school and in the surrounding districts, attended. Liberal supplies of refreshments were provided by the many parents and friends who attended. Games and sports occupied the children from about 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 

30th January 

Arthur Langdon collided with another boy while playing during the dinner hours. His eye was badly bruised and swelled up considerably. 

2nd February 

About a dozen children were detained for half an hour after afternoon school, for breaking the school rule which forbids them going down to the river, without special permission. They had been engaged in catching eels during the dinner hour. 

10th February 

During the dinner hour, at a few minutes to half past one O’clock, Ellen Groves met with an accident. She was sitting on the fence between the two playgrounds and was suddenly pushed by another girl, which caused her to fall to the ground. The doctor was sent for, and he found that her elbow joint was dislocated. 

About one minute later than Ellen Grove’s fall. Doris Hancock was struck over the eye by a stone. A boy had thrown what he took to be a lump of soil only but which evidently contained a stone. She went home and did not return for the afternoon 

17th February 

Owing to the Masterton Show this week the attendance fell to a fraction below 27 for the week’s average 

9th March 

Dinah Bovey complained that eight pence was taken from her pencil case, during yesterday afternoon. Petty theft has been frequent of late. 

15th March 

Rewi Speedy fell in a pool of water during the dinner hour and was sent home to change his clothes. 

6th April 

A workman employed by the School Committee visited the school re the cutting of the willows and the proposed site of the new latrines. 

7th April 

Learnt that Leo J Stratford had made use of vulgar and indecent language to one of the girls during the absence of the teacher, while [the teacher was] consulting members of the School Committee about the site for the latrines, on previous day. He was called upon to make a written apology to the parents of the girl and to hand another to the teacher. 

20th April 

It was discovered at 9.30 that someone had cut away the cord from the flagpole since school dismissed the previous day. 

3rd May 

In accordance with telegram received from Wellington Education Board the specifications of work to be done at the school were posted to Mr Harding, Builder, Masterton 

4th May 

Five members of the School Committee (Rev J H Sykes, Bovey, Groves, Hancock and Perry), assisted by two or three friends, were occupied all day in laying down gravel, at the entrances to the two paddocks and along the walks round the school. The work was not completed for want of time. 

8th May 

Te Nui School Annual Report by F H Bakewell included:

• Very satisfactory work has been done.

• A school of this size in an extremely exacting task for a sole teacher. 

• In intelligent grouping is the only possible way of meeting the requirements in some subjects. But it should be sparingly used in the case of reading, especially in the lower standards. 

25th May 

Tenui [School] culvert and removing willows 4 pounds

1st June 

Heavy rainstorm. River and creeks flooded. Attendance 2 only.

5th June 

Received from the Wellington Education Board cheque of £6-11-3, the amount granted by Government under the manual and technical Act for sewing, for year ending December 1904. Voucher was signed by sewing mistress and returned.

8th June 

A load of timber etc., arrived to be used in erection of new latrines 

14th June 

Four workman arrived for the purpose of carrying out the work of erecting latrines, painting the buildings and repairing roofs With the consent of the School Committee they were allowed the use of a fire in the school in the evenings. 

23rd June 

Mr T O’Connor sent a note complaining that the girl Annie King had been making use of “very nasty and dirty statements” to some of the other girls at school and that she had also circulated among them scandalous lies reflecting the honour of his wife. 

Six girls acknowledged to having heard her make use of filthy language. She herself confesses to having said things that were untrue and that she had already apologised to Mr O’Connor. She was reprimanded and warned that such conduct if repeated would lead to expulsion from the school as being unfit to associate with other children.

23rd June 

Mr Harding the builder and his men, left the work here incomplete to go to Whakataki. They expect to return on Tuesday next to continue this work. 

4th July 

The boy James Collerton, upon being refused permission to leave school at 3 O’clock. immediately walked out of the schoolroom 

5th July 

James Collerton, when called out of class to be punished for wilful insubordination, refused to submit to punishment and again walked out of the room. He was thereupon informed that he was expelled from the school for incorrigible insubordination. 

5th July 

The painters returned to finish their work. They announced that they were authorised to put on one coat of paint to the outside and inside of the school room. 

6th July 

With the consent of the chairman of the School Committee the school closed at 12.30 until Tuesday morning next (11th) while the work of painting was being carried out 

11th July 

In order to give time for the paint to dry thoroughly and to cease to smell, it was decided to postpone the reopening of the school until Monday the 17th inst. 

25th September 

Clarence Hills was supposed to be suffering from measles, is now discovered to be suffering from Scarlet Fever. Several parents are afraid to allow their children to attend school until he learn whether there are any further developments of the complaint.

6th October

For many years... it has been known “Te Nui” the official name of a district on the East Coast of Wellington, is nonsense ; many insist on writing It correctly, "Tinui”, but the correction has never been authorised.

23rd October 

The truant officer (From Wellington) visited the school in the morning. He addressed the children pointed out to them the necessity for greater regularity and warned them of the serious consequences to their parents, if it should be necessary to summon them 

In the afternoon Mr Tennant, the newly appointed inspector paid a surprise visit to the school. He examined the composition lesson then proceeding heard the upper standards read, and questioned them in elementary and local geography. 

9th November 

King’s Birthday. School closed for the day 

6th December 

Election Day School closed.

15th December 

School closed at 3.15 for the holidays. In the evening a lecture accompanied with lime-light views, was given to the scholars by the Rev J H Sykes, chairman of the School Committee. It embraced the chief objects of interest in Yorkshire, including its cathedrals, churches, abbeys, castles, modern buildings and many of its natural beauty spots. 

Limelight (also known as Drummond light or calcium light) is a non-electric type of stage lighting. An intense illumination is created when a flame fed by oxygen and hydrogen is directed at a cylinder of quicklime (calcium oxide), due to a combination of incandescence and candoluminescence.

The projector it powered was called the magic lantern. The magic lantern is an early type of image projector that uses pictures — paintings, prints, or photographs — on transparent plates, usually made of glass, one or more lenses, and a light source. The invention of limelight in the 1820s made projected images much brighter, emitting about 6,000–8,000 lumens.

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