MANUREWA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 534, 25 May 1920, Page 3

MANUREWA.

NEW INFANT SCHOOL. Mr. C. H. Lupton, chairman of the District School Committee, has just received information from |the Board of Education to the effect that the Education Department has passed a grant for the erection of two classrooms in brick, the architect being' instructed to arrange for the work to be undertaken as early as possible. It was the board's intention to en- i large the present school by the addition of two other class-rooms. The matter was brought up a(t the last m eating of the school committee by Mr. E. S. Pegler. Thi9 member strongly urged the committee to press for a" separate infant school. , It was pointed out thalt the present school had been added to and enlarged so often that to go further with this policy would be a waste of public money without' accomplishing the desired object. The infartts and primer classes was a distin'ct branch of education, and was becoming more so. Modern methods of teaching these classes made it almost imperative thtft they should have a building quite distinct from the more advanced pupils. Other members supported the speaker, and a motion was unanimously carried, that the chairman wait on the boaid and press the claim for a separate building. The above result is largely due «,o_ the energetic wor'c of the chairman and his committee, who refused to accept the alteration to the present school. . Manurewa is moving steadily, a brick infant school is now assured, also a brick pos|t office (plans or which was accepted by the J. own Board many months ago), the erection of which cannot be delayed much longer. Further, the *IBOOO loan for roads and footpaths is guaranteed from the State Advances Board. These three important works (absolute essentials of district progress) are largely the result of having an energetic and live chairman governing the principal functions of this We have a few dissatisfied croakers (who, if they were only in office), would make things shift. These j street-corner talkers are like tne poor, "They are always *'ith us, but should occasion require ' action, solid work, and energy," they are non-este —the public meeting of the street corner is aboUt their limit; Ithis usually saps all their energy. Every district produces this class, and it is • well for Manurewa that somebody is leading and working, and that 1 things are moving steadily forward for solid progress.