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OUR GROWING SCHOOLS

POSITION MUST BE FACED.

The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), as one of the College Governors, lias- of late taken the opportunity of personally visiting soi;ie (if our scholastic institutions, and twin his deductions as to the present nraition ;U ,<l hi s belief in the biff future ot Wellington, lie is convinced that a serious •esponsibility is placed on local governing authorities to meet: the public needs thai are'pressing on the community, not only lor recreation purposes, but tor 0,-jik'ahoiial purposes in and around the cnv.. He instanced the crowded state of some of the State schoolsCTowded and overcrowded in spite of all the talk about hygiene and nrrto-date school iiicthods—and the Girls' College. he matter of dealing' with tho accomwnrlajon problem was becoming; a verv d'iffi- ™. 01 >o for the Education Hoard and Col ere Governors to solve. In the cases of both (he Girls' and Bovs' Colleges extra room will simply have to be provided for next year to accommodate ffio extra students coming in. and as Christmas is at hand there is little time to do it in. They must manage to look a little farther ahead than they were doing at present. The same argument, he thought, could he npplied to the Wellington Hospital. Ample space in grounds, gardens, anil exercise walks shook be provided round a big general hospital, but in the- case of the Wellington institution the ground was being more and more impinged upon by builditirs, which meant a, diminution' in the open ground space by so much every vear or two. The situation called for tho Greatest consideration and enterprise on the part of the governing authorities, both municipally and educationally, if they did not wish to be overtaken by the surprising growth of the cUy.

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 38, 8 November 1919, Page 5

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OUR GROWING SCHOOLS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 38, 8 November 1919, Page 5

OUR GROWING SCHOOLS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 38, 8 November 1919, Page 5

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