Foxton School.

Manawatu Herald, 28 January 1904, Page 3

Foxton School.

BETTER ACCOMMODATION WANTED,

The following letter was read at the Wanganui Education Board meeting from the secretaryl am instructed to inform you that at an urgent special meeting of the Foxton School Committee, held on Tuesday, 21st December, the following resolution was carried That the committee express its indignation to the Board of Education for its breach of faith with the committee in not carrying out the immediate additions to the school as promised. The committee consider its action as injurious to the health of teachers and children alike, and strongly protest against any further delay of the promised additions." Further, lam to remind you of the many drawbacks that the Foxton school is labouring under, besides the dangers to health and comfort, about which I have written to you fully before. How can three teachers do their duty to their classes all in one hot, crowded room. How can Standard I. and three infant classes of about 90 exist in a small room only large enough to seat 86 at most. Is it right to force teachers and pupils out into bleak shelter sheds in all weathers? Is a school built nearly 30 years ago in a rising town like Foxton fit for the children of to-day ? I have, also, written to the chairman of the Board, reminding him about his visit to Foxton just before the last election of members to the Board when he visited the school in company with members of the local school committee. Hoping that the Board will reconsider it* decision and give Foxton its fair share of the building grant, which my committee consider it is entitled to after so many years’ standing.—Yours, etc., S. H. Baker.

The Chairman said they all concurred that the work was absolutely necessary and would have been gone on with only for the sudden decision of the Government to reduce the building grant by over £IOOO. It was utterly impossible to do the work without the money.