SCHOOLS TO CLOSE TILL FEBRUARY 15
— Press Association
By Telegraph-
INVERCARGILL, Jan. 16. Public schools will not be reopened before February 15. This announcement was made this evening by the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, who added that the decision was arrived at after consttltation with the DirectorGeneral of Health, Dr. Watt, and the Director of Education, Mr Lambourne. i This course is being adopted because of the situation created hy the ihfahtile paralysis epidemic. "It is something of a negative announcement," said Mr Fraser, but the position will be reviewed again shortly and a denite date be named."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 1, 16 January 1937, Page 4
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