THE SCHOOL DESK.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1761, 28 May 1913, Page 8

THE SCHOOL DESK.

.WEW TYPE BEING INTRODUCED. The Wellington Education Board has i'for several years given much attention to Hie question of seating, and lias, by numerous experiments carried out under direction of a competent committee, which included the inspectors and tho principal of tho Training College, evolved a useful type of desk (stated a report , which was tabled at tho board's meeting Medical men tp whom it was 'submitted expressed themselves as satisf'fied with the desk, from the point of view ; of the liealth of the child, though the (adoption of an iron standard would probably render the operation of cleaning somewhat easier. .

"It lias not, however," stated tho report, "been possible to adr.pt' an iron standard lo the type of desk the board considers best for our schools. On the recommendation of the • inspectors that new desks arc ■ necessary—the board has gradually introduced into- its schools over 27110 improved duals of newer type, besides over ION) singles—the latter chiofly for. the secondary department of the district high schools. During the last 18 months, the board has spent on new desks over ,£BOO. In many'schools, also, >n":tho recommendation of the inspectors, Meets (if such!.a. nature as.to lie readily remedied have been dealt with as opportunity has offered. •"In two yenrs the board has thus improved over 2BAQ desks at a cost, of neoWy JJsoo—this includes all Ihe desks at five of oi.ii' city schools, and, in each case, the head teachers have expressed their satisfaction'-with■ tlii alteration and improvement:, made. The board has at nrosent 400 duals on order, and is undertaking improvement of a number of others.