"DISAPPOINTED" SCHOOL CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 3

"DISAPPOINTED" SCHOOL CHILDREN

■AUCKLAND, 3 T d February. . An announcement was made some time ago of the Auckland Education. Board's .•intention fo close the Chapel-street School. This was met with a storm of protest* and petitions, and public 'meetings added their pleadings to the appeal of' the committee that the school should be retained for the benefit of "theJchildren, of the neighbourhood. , • • The board' has, however, turned a .d«af ear to all appeals and arguments, for, when, some 230 children rolled up outside- their old schopl this morning, to 'regum© work after the hplidays,, they' found tHe doors locked 60 that none might,'enter. A good deal of bewilderment' Wa« expressed on the faces of the" young, folk at thia strange experience of" locS-out. With not a few 'the prospect of "still more holiday" was "clearly not displeasing.'. . r Meanwhile, the City Schools Commit.tee of the Board has issued instruction* to the headmaster, of the Nelson-etreet School 'to -receive all pupils and'to'iiee all available space in the room and cofrid6r to accommodate those who apply for admission. ; SUPPLYING LIQUOR TO A NATIVE ' GISBORNE, 3rd February. 'At Port Awantti to«day John jflorrissey was fined £30 for supplying a Native with liquor. , MR, FISHER ON »'HE WEST COAST ,» GREYMOCTH, 3r\T February. * Hon. IVM.'B. Fisher this moming* received deputations at the Harhour Board's office,- and visited the Sfcate .cchofcl and hoepital. In the afternoon lie delivered a political address "Mr. Fisher addressed a large audifence in the Otcymouth Town Hall tonights The Maydr presided. 'The; ad' di'ei*; which was ' unaer . the" • atwpic6s -of th& Befonn League, was on ■ similar Hae&

to the Hokitika, speech. I'he, . Mitiister. was .attentive!*' listened "to, and heartily applauded. • He was accorded a' Vpie qf thanks. 'He.]procdftds:'tO' Westport tomorrbw. ' - . v ■ > ' *