HASTINGS SCHOOLS NOT REOPENING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 70, 9 April 1937, Page 5

HASTINGS SCHOOLS NOT REOPENING

THose in Napier and Country to Resume RESULT OF RECENT CASES

AH sckools ia the district, with" tte exeeption of tkose in tke Borougb jof Hastings, will reopen again next Mon^ day morning. This was tke announre* ment made this morning by tke Mayou of Hastings, ' Mr G. A, Maddison, wkoi I is aiso ehairman of tke Hawke's Bay Education Board. k Mr Maddison said tkat ke kad been advised to tkis effect by tke Deparfc ment of Health, wkick kad dccidec^ in I view of tkere kaving been two «asei of infantile paralysis reported wSfckin tke past 48 houis in Hastings, no* to reopen tke four State primary schfools, j tke Convent Sckool or tke Higk Sekool in Hastings, bnt tkat all tke sckool# in Napier and tke country districtsf eonJ tignous to Hastings and Napier 'would reopen again. - No definite date for tke xeopening of tke Hastings Bckools was flxed, and in tke meantime tke restrictions placed on children under 16 years of age at tending picture theatres and otker public and semi-pubHe gatkerings. in Hastings would continue in force. It is tkree weeks next Monday since Itke Bckools in Hastings! and tke sur^ rounding districts closed and just a little over two weeks since tke Napier and district sckools shut do.wn. Additional sckools tkat wiU now reopen on Monday, aecording to advice reoeived from the Hawke's Bay Education Board this afternoon ar6 those at Wairoa, Frasertown and Kopuawhara.