EXHIBITION VISITS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20112, 5 December 1939, Page 10

EXHIBITION VISITS

| SCHOOL PUPILS’ PARTIES I ACCOMMODATION PLANS BOOKINGS TOTAL 3000 (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Details of the arrangements made for the accommodation of parties of school children visiting Wellington fm the Centennial Exhibition were announced yesterday by Mr. W. J. Deavoll. The children will be accommodated in the old Newtown School buildings nr.a will remain for three days in Wellington except in special cases. The first of the children arrived in llington yesterday. They were 26 of the Education Department’s correspondence school children from isolated places throughout New Zealand. Next week, arrangements have been made for a party of 20 boys from Mt. Albert Grammar School, a combined party from Mang'a.whio and Waverley schools, Taranaki, a party from Te Tiri School, Hawke’s Bay, and another from Manutahi Native School, in the Gisborne district. Bookings at the accommodation biueau in the Newtown Scnool already total about 2000. The scheme will not be under way in earnest, however, till January 20, wdren it is expected that a North Auckland party comprising 300 children, 50 teachers and other adults assisting in the supervision, will arrive at the bureau and remain till January 26.

Mr. Deavoll said the scheme had been drawn up with the .object of giving the maximum service to the visiting pupils at a reasonable cost and of removing any doubts that might exist in the minds of parents that their children might not be properly cared for during their absence from home.