LARGER SCHOOL WANTED

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4323, 28 September 1921, Page 2

LARGER SCHOOL WANTED

NGATEA COMMITTEE’S PLEA. -

INSPECTOR SYMPATHETIC.

A visit to the Ngatea school by Mr Munro, school inspector, yesterday, was taken advantage of by the local school committee, and a deputation consisting of Messrs W. McDuff (chairman), G. T. Davidson, W. J. Clare, and W. Schultz waited on Mr Munro.

Mr McDuff explained .the reason for the deputation and thought it hardly necessary tp point put that a larger school was required. The inspector agreed that it was quite unnecessary to do so. It appears that the shelter shed, which was the old original schoolhouse, had once more to be used as a class room. The inspector said he realised that more accommodation was necessary.

Mr Macken, schoolmaster, said that the health inspector had condemned the building. It was the worst of 90 bad cases. Mr McDuff drew attention to the fact that a portion of Mr Mackeh’s Class was in the shelter shed, and a portion in the main building; This was quite an unsatisfactory arrangement.

Mr Clare said that during the wet weather the children, having no shelter shed in which to leave their saddles (there were quite a number who rode to school),, had to leave •their saddles in the rain and ride home with them soaking wet. The inspector said it was monstrous that there was no shelter shed. The Department, however, had no money. Mr Clare said that new schools were being built in Taranaki. The inspector replied that these, tenders had been let before the financial stringency. At the conclusion of the deputation the inspector expressed his sympathy with the committee to secure a larger school, and would do all he could for them.