LONG OVERDUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 08, Issue 88, 10 July 1945, Page 5

LONG OVERDUE

[increased SCHOOL ACCOM MO"* DATION EDGECUMBE HOUSEHOLDERS ' ? MEET - The long delay in furnishing Edgecumbe District School wit!h am urgeritly needed classroom was the subject of a householders, meeting ■.

last Thursday night. This need has; been stressed for years and last year ? supported by a Health Dei j partment doctor when reporting on 4 the present accommodation. Situated ' in a draughty corridor badly lighted 1 £ and the children in Stds. ' 1 and 2 have an unenviable time and 5 according to medical reports do not ./ reach the standard of health enjoy-; e,d by children accommodated in the - classrooms. The School Committee *■. has met little success in its; 1 strong representations with a view ' to having conditions altered, for thfo :t: and the last week has wit-t j '• nessed. something in the nature, of a when the majority of -parr* ents kept the children affected at - home. , ■ a Mr J. H. Hon. telegraphed the Education Board last week acquainting them of ?the v likely turn of but has rer ' - ceived no acknowledgment. '3 Mr Rolf Withy ? sppke ; of personal representation to the % Auckland authorities and was he

i'elt rather frustrated by the * he had.been given. Following a disn , cuss ion that was, not >vithout some heat, the chairman, m asking for a , vote on the lockout received a ma-* " - jority in favour of continuing. . - Should no favourable reply be re- ; ceived this week a further meeting ! will be called on Friday to discuss - the matter. " , , '