THE MIDDLE DISTRICT SCHOOL.

Evening Star, Issue 4283, 17 November 1876, Page 3

THE MIDDLE DISTRICT SCHOOL.

To the Editor. a parent of children connected with the Middle District School, and consequently one immediately interested in the comfort and health of the scholars, I ask your kind, permission to call the attention of the public generally to the unnecessary and disgraceful apathy of the authorities in delaying the erection of the new buildings. Plans were prepared about the beginning of the year, and fully three mouths ago tenders were called for, one being accepted in September last, yet nothing has been done in the way of commencement; and the present shanties serving the temporary duties of school-rooms seem likely to ’ remain an inconvenience and discomfort to the unfortunate teachers and children, and aneyesore to the surrounding neighborhood. I care not with whom rests the blame, whether with the Dunedin School Committee, the Education Board, the late Provincial Executive, or the now all-powerfhl General Government; the fact remains that nothing has been done in the matter since a tender was accepted. I have been informed that the plans were : forwarded six weeks since > to Wellington, and still remain there, possibly stnek away in a pigeon hole. If this information be cor-; rect, either We are beginning to suffer the baneful effects of the new regime, er if falsa, it is a base device of the enemy to weaken the position of an Abolitionist Government. Whatever be the cause of delay, it is a crying sin that teachers, children, and parents should be so slighted and neglected.—l am, sc., . Paterfamilias. Dunedin, November 17.