OLD SCHOOLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1920, Page 5

OLD SCHOOLS.

QUESTION OP REPLACEMENT. INSANITARY BUILDINGS FIRST. By Telejrranli.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Replying to a deputation at Foxton yesterday, which asked for a new school at Sanson to replace the existing one, which is 45 years old, the Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) dttM generally with the question. He said the problem of old buildings had to be faced. Where a building was so old as to be unwholesome and insanitary the department would at once undertake a new building, but Is could not promise to replace all old schools with new buildings. Such a course involved a huge expenditure, besides which it was unnecessary. There were many buildings 30, and even forty years of age in which the timber, often Kauri, was in excellent condition, and much could be done to remodel and modernise old buildings at comparatively little expense. The Government would follow this course rather than replace all old buildings at a time when building was at almost a ruinous cost. An architect would shortly be appointed to the department to advise with regard to the question of old schools and which buildings should be replaced.