WATER FOR SCHOOLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 926, 20 March 1930, Page 7

WATER FOR SCHOOLS

LOCAL BODIES TO BE APPROACHED SHOULD BE NO CHARGE School committees throughout Auckland are to send deputations to the 1 i local bodies in whose territory theii ® i schools are situated to ask for free 1 j water. j The question was discussed at lensrtL • j at last evening’s meeting of the Aucks and Primary School Committees’ Assoj ciation. when a remit on the subjec; ‘ | was put forward from the Mount Rosj kil School Committee. Mr. C. J . mit, which advocated the supply 01 ? j free water for schools. Since S: Heliers had come under the City Coun- . ! oil the water had been most expensive j ! “Water meters are most inexplicable ; things.” Mr. Lovegrove continued. *Tn one term we used 60,000 gallons. Tin school was closed for six weeks during j the following term and yet. according ; to tiie meters. 85,000 gallons had been | used. The next term was in the middle I of winter and the total was more than { 100,000 gallons. Water should be as : free as the air the children breathe.” Mr. H. Beard, Newton, was of the opinion that his committee had been L beaten by the meters. The free allow- : ance of gallons of water for each i child each day should be ample, bu: . such was not the case. It was suggested that the cost of , school water should be added to the ; rates—it would be an infinitesimal increase. Further suggestions were that the question should be discussed at ; householders’ meetings and that the South Island School Committees’ Federation should be asked for support, i The remit was carried and it was ‘ decided to suggest that school comi mittees affected should appoint deputations to wait upon their local bodies.