SEASIDE SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2703, 24 February 1916, Page 2

SEASIDE SCHOOLS

A SEATOUN WANT.

Worser Bay School is not in the bay at all, but oil a ridge overlooking both Soatoun and Miramar. and serving the locality all round. The school district is not compact, but straggling along the water-side from Scorching Bay to Fort Dorset on tile extreme south and the Valley of Miramar on the west. Residents of Seatoun (which is a growing area) havo for eighteen months been trying to ribtain a side school for little children to save them the long journey in bad weather to the top of the hill. According to the secretary of the School Committee (Mr. C. E. Sticlibury), the Education Board gave favourable consideration to the request on behalf of 36 scholars; but from the secretary of the Education Board Mr, Stichbury now learns that instead of the 12 square feet of air space formerly held as essential for the health of children, 10 foot is now regarded as sufficient, based on the average attendance. This change now brings the Worser Bay School on the hill well up to the requirements for the 36 children referredl to. The appliiation for a side school is now declined. Mr. Stichbury says tho point 'raised was not accommodation, but the need for a side school at Seatoun, a fact lost sight of by the board.