Pukekohe's High School.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 462, 1 April 1919, Page 4

Pukekohe's High School.

(To the Editor) i Sik,—Another meeting of the Education Board has come and gone without any apparent advance being made towards the erection of suitable buildings to louse the Pukekohe High School scholars. The report of the Education Board's last meeting mentions almost every small outlandish place as making strenuous endeavours to procure better school accommodation—but nothing doing for Pukekohe Technical High School. Every day about twenty pupils leave j the borough to attend the City High | Schools Take the present position of tbe so-called High School building, looked at from a school utility point —a draught?, ill-ventilated, insanitary bam, absolutely unfitted even for the purpose of a No-license meeting, let alone so sacred a use as the housing for a vital part of their lives of the coming citizens of this highly important district. What are the intelligent observant members of the borough doing that they do not raise a howl of indignation at the degrading surroundings of Pukekohe's socalled High School? Are they all so devoted to the depraved worship of the " almighty dollar " that they fail to notice the unfortunate pastime forced upon the female scholars (on account of lack of adequate accommodation) of parading the footpaths and roads in the school's immediate vicinity during vacation hours'? Surely it is high time the business men of this town asserted themselves, and placed this High School business upon a sound workable basis. Yours, etc., CECIL EUADLEY.