the assessment, necesitating school expenses and teachers supplements be- ing unpaid; factious disputes about the sites of schoolhouses and local pre- judices.” (The last is still a very controversial topic today.)

In an earlier report in 1858, RB. Irving, Acting School Visitor, remarked:

I have found that in many districts, little or no attention is paid to the appearance or comfort of the schoolhouses — the buildings are insufficient, the internal arrangements are miserable, the furniture very imperfect and inconvenient. Not one district school-house of all that I have visited, has any playground attached to it and two only have the common convenience of a privy—a convenience which ought to be looked upon as essential, to preserve that innate modesty which ought to characterize the minds of the youth of both sexes.

Southport School picnic, 1906.

The teacher was Allison Campbell (back row, far right); others identified are (left to right) BACK ROW: Fred Murphy, Morley Mutch, Ern Burke, ———— Henry, ————— ————, Stewart, Lauretta Wood, Jennie Mutch, —~———— Roach; MIDDLE:Fred Ogar, Joe Burns, Lottie Hubley, Sadie Warry, Rose Stewart, Annie Grimes, Rose Hayley, Emma Burke, —— ——, Katie Hayley; FRONT: Fred Wood, —— ——, John Aylward, (3 unknown), Gussie Aylward.

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