KAIWARRA SCHOOL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8362, 24 February 1913, Page 11

KAIWARRA SCHOOL

To the Editor “N.Z. Times.” Sir,—l saw in your paper quite recently a proposition to have the K.aiwarra school closed and tho scholars removed to Thorndon. Whoever proposed such a step must have known their business, and. no doubt had a good reason for making ’ such a proposition. I do not agree with the closing of a school at any time or place, but the circumstances attached to this particular school are such as to warrant cither the closing and rebuilding in a different part of the district or the removal of the scholars to another school. On the one hand is the foundry complained of, making such a noise as tr. be unbearable both to the officials and their scholars. Then again, there is a far greater trouble and a danger to public health in the polluted creek from the tannery, the smell from which is enough to spread sickness throughout the school. This creek runs quite close to tho school, and tho teachers and children are inhaling the smell the whole time. However, 1 think’ it would bo advisable if tho health officer were to pay a visit to tho vicinity and see and hear for himself, and pass his opinion as to whether he thinks it a fit and proper place for children to bo cooped in during school hours. —I am, etc., A WELL-WISHER.