EKETAHUNA SCHOOL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 634, 11 October 1909, Page 7

EKETAHUNA SCHOOL.

.'•."-■.'.'■'■!'■'■:!- ———-ft','. ' \- ■■■■ ... ." V '.- V.■;;-,.A. NEOLECTED INSTITtfTION, . : ' 'During dowtipour On.Tiiesddi bf; reporter hied hlm«lf to■ thti Eketuhuna. Pttblje ihool ffi W jee.of cenfirmins or otherwise -the reports itgardliig; the leaky condition t>t the bnildii* Entering .tho. door, which/opens to: the inaia corridor, the ; .pressman encountered 4 minialfldicated, had its source from a. eak h" ffi. roW,.-; ■ThWeaitUd.-a. innsty■ 6d O V and ai it arose, directly .opposite . the door 'leading to the classroom that is occupied by infants durln ff ,Rcliool, hours; its effcof- on the °»ne?i health of. the. children may .fetter 4 ? irtSd than, dtser bed. : Further along atoflMS presented, itself, created in an idehticalffl nerto the one already described, while(other Y# -.»« rl » ? n th m. floor bore testimony, to .ditlonal, leaks. . The. classroom wed by the older pnmls.Xns next visitcdi and still'this familiar dtip.diip, and the wet epots on the iloor-and free and compulsory education amid such .surroundings I Three other-rooms wore only one of tho ■ number, wns found to b« wcnthprnrnnf water finding its way through- TptS 9 & fectl. n ..the-.toof in .cwry itistance. : : The stinted; flrea that, dte service ae a playground was found almost inundated,., and stream* from. the.dawii pitiee have channelled,holes in the fnst-disappcarfng metal.; A.condition mow msanittiry.-and more dotrlmentiil to the health of children * could not be imaeincd. -The tie scHpUon;given, continues the "Express," ishot ono bit exnggorated, ahd, should serve to mako he^jdncnrion.Board cosrnisont:6/ things, Iβ th6j' reallv txist and to hurry on tho erection of a «chool;oh thenew 5ite...... - ...