OVERCROWDINGS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9007, 17 December 1907, Page 5

OVERCROWDINGS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.

EDUCATION BOARD UNSYMPATHETIC,

At the meeting of the Masterton School Committee, held last evening, the Secretary of the Wellington Education Board wrote with regard to the proposal to enlarge the District High School buildings. The letter stated that as it was probable that a school would be established at Lansdowne before next winter, it would be desirable to postpone the question of enlarging the High School until it was seen what effect the new school at Lansdowne would have on the attendance at that school. The committee considered that some urgent steps should be taken to alievate the present over-crowding of the building, v and it was not thought that the establishment of a school at Lansdowne would have any effect on the attendanco at the High School. One member mentioned that the over-crowding of the rooms was affecting the teachers as weli as the pupils, as it was only yesterday afternoon that one of the teachers had fainted in one of the overcrowded rooms. It was decided to again bring the matter before the Education Board with a request that something should be done, and that Mr Hogg, M.P., be supplied with a copy of the resolution.