A HINT TO THE KAUAERANGA SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3962, 9 September 1881, Page 3

A HINT TO THE KAUAERANGA SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

(To.the Editor of tho Evening-. Stau.) Sill, —In these times of disease, when a dangerous epidemic is passing over the district/. I ■ think the Kauaeranga School Committee should prevent the unwhole-, «ome • overcrowding of the boys' school. The .building, as. you are aware, is situated in a low and swampy place, and only large enough to accommodate (according to the regulated laws of health) about two-thirds of its present attendance —in fact, the children are packed like sheep in a pen, and in no state to receive much permanent good. I am at a loss to know why this school is so much in demand when there is abundant room in the large and splendidly situated school building in Sandes street. It cannot be any superior teaching faculties oyeir the other schools, as 89 per cent, of the scholars attending the girls' school successfully passed the last standards— a result highly creditable to the head teacher and assistants, and proves the great progress attained by the scholars over the other schools. „ These facts, which prove the undoubted, ability of Miss Haselden as a teacher, combined with tfrtreaperior accommodation, should recommend themselves to parents to sond (especially,) their girls, to a school which* bag been, set ,apai;t' for their benefit. ,1 would, therefore, advise the committee to direct their efforts in that direction, and thereby equalise the school space under iheir control.- —I am, &c t Oniookeb.