REOPENING OF CANTERBURY PRIMARY SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18362, 21 April 1925, Page 11

REOPENING OF CANTERBURY PRIMARY SCHOOLS.

to rst xditob or "tbx russ." . gjy__Xow that the Health Department'ha* decided to open the secondary jefiool®; I that tlie P T ' mai T schools Vht also k e °P enc d safety to concerned. A great number of the j n onr secondary schools are «nder th o ag° 7 cars > and thus I?. as m is really in many cases equal 'tn that of the children in the highest '■fanflards at the primary schools. There <tono use in holding off until there are bsolutely no more cases of paralysis, ' Jince I suppose a few isolated cases will crop tip here and there for some Ijjne yet This is the same with every disease. Would it not be a good move on the part °f the Health Department ■io open our primary schools, say, on •Thursday next? There will be a tremendous" amount of organisation to be e*rried out for the first day or two, Ik-hen the schools do open, and I think j%at jf this was got over on the last two day ß " sv ' e should be ■ «ble to make a clear start on Monday ' next I do not think that this suggestion is unreasonable, and I am quite ~u re that in putting it forward lam receiving the support of the large , majority of the teachers and parents :„f Canterbury—Yours, etc., ■ 0 TEACHER. ; April 20th, 1925.