The Wellington State Schools.
«. (Per Press Association.) [ Wellington, April 10. During the hearing of a charge of , larceny against a boy to-day the mother of the accused alleged that she had made several efforts to get the boy to school, but he had been refused admission on the grounds that the schools were overcrowded. This statement caused somewhat of a surprise, and, interviewed, the Chairman of the Education Board informed the Post that no such case had been reported to the Board. There are some standards in certain schools which are full, and which can receive no more pupils, but pupils applying could always be accommodated at some other school. There is sufficient room in all the schools to accommodate all pupils. The only school that is crowded in every standard is the Newton school. He intimated that he has a scheme which he hopes to soon put into practice whereby a school might be established for waifs, who after undergoing some preliminary discipline would be drafted into other schools. The publication of the matter will, no doubt, lead to investigation of the congested state of the schools.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 237, 11 April 1896, Page 2
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188The Wellington State Schools. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 237, 11 April 1896, Page 2
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