THE EKETAHUNA SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10240, 17 May 1911, Page 5

THE EKETAHUNA SCHOOL.

DEPUTATION TO ACTING-PRIME MINISTER.

A deputation about sixty strong waited upon the Acting-Prime Minister at the Eketahuna Railway static"" yesterday, and urged that a sum of money be provided with which to erect a new school in that township. Thev also presented a petition in support of their views. In reply, the Minister said he must compliment the deputation upon the precise and comprehensive manner in which it had stated its requirements. He would not say anything about the complication between the Board and the Department. Messrs Hogg and Vile, members of the Education Board, had discussed the matter with him in Masterton, and they wore both in favour of a new building. The deputation had reduced its claim to a clear issue. Tbe difference in the sum required to build a new school compared with the cost of removal of the old was not so very great, and the advantages of extra accommodati >Tj and improved sanitary conditions would be considerable. He Mould lay the petition before the Minister of Education, and explain to him t.he emphatic feelings of the people. He hoped representations ho would be able to make wo"kl rivet the case. (Applause.) "ho Mi'iiste** then boar.lf 1 til' l traiv. which had been delayed on his account.