A SMALL MATTER

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 26, 2 February 1910, Page 4

A SMALL MATTER

we look back along the lane of time and see the Borough School as it was in its early days, and then cast our eyes upon the present building and environment, we say that we have progressed in a wonderful manner But what is, is not so good us what might be, and there might be considerable improvement made in the outside conditions of the school even now. Monday was the re-opening day of the school, and it was a wet day. The road, alongside the school tence ay as under water, and many children must have sat wet-foot in sehooi. At one time a water trap mid-way along the channel served to carry the water away; but this was stopped up, and the channel was supposed to conduct the water along to the Alfred Street corner. The fall to Alfred Street is not enough to do what is expected, and thus the road banks the flood up to the school fence. Ihe .School Committee would be doing well to remedy this before the winter sets in. The approach to the school ground is also in a very sorry state iv wet weather, and would be all the better for a few loads of gravel. The cost would not be great, and if the Committee's funds are at a low ebb the work is necessitous enough to make an appeal to the Education Board within reason. It may seem a small thing to make a song about, but it is from the neglect of small things that greater trouble comes.