The Inspector's report of 1934 noted improvements made and included "that Stanley Bridge School was the first in his territory to establish a First Aid Kit". This appears to be trivial today, but no doubt it was a major accomplishment. During the same era, the Trustees, in con¬ junction with the Department of Education, annually sponsored the School Fair. This gala day of sports, grand entertainment, and judging of young peoples' hobbies combined a number of Districts. From this District $15.00 was voted each year for prizes. Today the 4-H movement has taken over this competition which is under the Department of Agriculture. It may not be quite as successful as the School Fairs of the 1930-1940 era, when all the students participated. Today only the dedicated and interested participate in 4- H Clubs . One item that plagued the Trustees was the collection of taxes. Incidents of taking residents to court to try and collect are recorded. Also recorded are the cancellation and forgiving of taxes at Annual Meetings. A noticeable improvement in the paying of the assessment appears to take place after 1937. At this time the Department of Education authorized the 10% discount system for the taxpayers. The system was allowed up to the first day of December in the taxation year. Poll tax, levied upon residents who were not land-owners, was set by the Trustees as well as the taxation assessment level. In 1947 the rate of taxation was 44 cts. per $100.00, but in 1950 it was agreed, to levy an assessment of 75 cts. on the hundred of property valuation and five dollars poll tax on all Property and house¬ holders in the Residents over 21 years of age at this time were only required to pay $1.00 poll tax. By 1958 the poll tax was raised to $5.00 and the property owners paid $10.00. Non-property taxes were brought in line in 1964 when a motion was made to impose $20.00 on this group of people. The property owners' poll tax remained the same. Another tax levied by the Trustees was the Dog Tax. This tax was collected for many years but it was abolished in 1956. The tax collected in previous years was $10.00 for each dog owner. The Trustees shouldered their responsibilities in a conscientious manner when the schoolhouse had to be re-built in 1911 and again in 1948 when the schoolhouse was moved to its present site. Difficulties for the Trustees arose in 1960 when the District became divided over the send¬ ing of the Grade IX and X students to the proposed Kensington Regional High School. The stu¬ dents in these grades were already attending the Kensington High School with the parents fund¬ ing the cost of tuition and cost of bussing. Rather than consider Consolidation, a motion pro¬ posed that the students should be returned to the local school. This would again give the teach¬ ers ten grades to teach. Two votes were held on this issue and the majority vote was for Consolidation. The responsibility for the education of all students to the end of Grade XII was to be part of the District assessment. The first Trustee to represent the District on the Kensington Regional School Board was A.S. MacEwen and the first school bus driver was Robert MacKay . Drivers from the area who had supplied transportation and had been paid by the parents were Elmer Fyfe and Borden MacAllister. A strange agreement existed for these men. Their names had to be approved by the Trustees although they did not hire them. Some of the teaching burden had been lifted permanently from the rural teacher's load. With Grades I-VIII now being housed in the school, everything apparently ran smoothly. However, the Trustees were still responsible for raising the assessment rate to correspond with expenses. A decided discrepancy was found to exist in various Districts. The Department of Education helped relieve the Trustees responsibility through the use of the uniform tax guide for the Island. Under this policy the Land Assessment Department was established and people from 130