BROOKLYN SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 48, 20 November 1919, Page 3

BROOKLYN SCHOOL

DEPUTATION STRESSES THK NEED OF NEW BUILDING. Tho necessity of erecting a new infants' school at Brooklyn «»s stressed at the monthly meetins of the F.ducation Hoard yesterday by a deputation comprising Messrs. A. J. While ami .1. Glover. It was urged that the intaiit department: building was too old to be repaired and should he replaced. It 'was napless to expend any more money on ■* building which could not last more than a. few years, and the only possible solution of the diflienlty was the erection of a new school. Tho money required for improvements would provide interest and sinking'fund practically on the sum reciuii'od for n new school; which w<tß estimated at. .fcS.V/0. The board had received liicnev from the Government for rebuilding; old schools, ami in this connection the deputation considered Hrookjyn was entitled to every consideration. Under the existing conditions the committee could not house all the children in t'no school buildings. The school, which was very badly lighted and received insufficient sunshine, was unhealthy. ; ' The chairman of the board (Mr. 1. ForsvllO pointed out to the. deputation the''futility of their pressing for a new whool for Brooklyn when there wero so many other schools which had a prior claim upon the board's consideration. In the city itself there wero schools, notably Mount Cook, which wero infinitely worse off than Brooklvn. Hi. failed to see that the Brooklyn inf.mt school was unhealthy, and the record? ■ showed that, it had the highest avow attendance in Wellington. In the circumstances he could not hold out nnv hope of the request of the deputation being complied with in the immed.ia.te future. • , l Tho deputation then retired, and after consideration it was derided to inform the llrooklyn committee that the board could not at the present luno make any grant for a school, but that the matter would lie considered when the gcn?ral question of rebuilding tho c.ity sch'j'jls was considered.