Wau Secondary
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School
Will be Opened in 1951
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, June 6.
I'IHE Territory’s long-needed secondary school is expected to open at Wau next year. The Education Depart ment is so confident that it will be built by then that it is already calling for applications from prospective students.
To be known as Wau High School, the school will cater for 100 pupils, including 80 boarders of both sexes. There will be separate dormitory buildings for boys and girls.
Pees for boarding students will be £5O a year, which includes laundry, textbooks and stationery. The Administration will provide free transport to and from students’ homes in the Territory at the Christmas vacation. Home visits during the mid-year vacation—June 23 to July 15—will be at parents’ expense. Those eligible for admission to the school are children over 11 years who have finished grade 6 in Papua-New Guinea or its equivalent elsewhere. It is expected that the following subjects will be available in 1951: English, German, French, Dutch, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, Stenotyping, Bookkeeping and Business Methods, Biology, Music and Domestic Science. Later it is planned to add Handicrafts, Art, Technical Training, etc.
The school will occupy 112 acres, and will be connected to Wau airstrip by a 2i miles long all-weather road. It will be 3,600 feet above sea level. Detailed plans of the school have been prepared and a contract for erection of the buildings will be let soon.
When Mr. R. A. McFarlane of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission near Lae, New Guinea, sailed back to his station from Sydney recently he took 1,000 copies of a book of Bible stories which will be distributed among mission schools. He said that natives were hungry for books of this sort and that their distribution was a weapon against the spread of com munism.