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INSURANCE OF SCHOOLS

: A PECULIAR POSITION. When. considering tlie case of the destruction by lire of the Deep Creek Sciiool (Murlborough), on which theWiarlborough members ol the Education Board presented ii reportm yesterday's meeting, the secretary, in answer to a question by Air. li. A. Wright, M.P., said-that tnis particular school was not insured. 'Later Mr. Wright said that he drew tlw inference from Ah , . Stewart that some or the school buildings were insured and some were not. The position simply nus, then, .that when n building was burned down the Department was notified oi' the fact and asked for a grant for another. Every no\v and again as t. school was destroyed by lire it was just passed on to the' Government. Would it not bu bolter to insure the schools, and, when cne was burned,'restore it without having to go to the 'Department? ■ The secretary of the board (Mr. 6. L Stewart) gave the board tho assurance that the State was prepared to take the risk of fire in 6chool buildings up to schools twenty years of α-ge. After that the board took over the insurance, paying from 2 por cent, upwards as the age of the building advanced until the amount paid reached 100 per cent., ivlien the building was !)ij yeate of age. Two per cent, was paid for five years, 5. per ceiit. for fire years, and 10 per cent, for six and a half years. The allowance received by the board for maintenance charges would not cover all insuraiicos. Mr. Wright: Then all schools under 10 years old arc not insured at all? Mr. Stewart: That is so.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 227, 19 June 1919, Page 7

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INSURANCE OF SCHOOLS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 227, 19 June 1919, Page 7

INSURANCE OF SCHOOLS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 227, 19 June 1919, Page 7

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