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, R.B. 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. t}rmff$ H,M g^^r^-"^^^ ■ ■■.■•■■■.■ ■ &M ffcllp HHHhBH 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; MIDDLEFred 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 . 32