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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 205, 7 July 1893, Page 5

The Aratapu School Committee have at length come to the conclusion that some decided steps should be taken to place the school ground in a better condition. Last year they let a clay burning contract and very materially improved a narrow sttip round the school building, but to finish the ground in the same way would take very much more money than they can hope to raise without assistance. At present the immediate school surroundings are quite unfit for children to cross, to say nothing of moving about in ; iu fact anything more mucky and dirty for children to walk in can scarcely be imagined. The Rechabite Society has used the school as a meeting house for the last twelve and the building has now become so unapproachable that they are leaving it for dry land. The school was built too near the swamp in the first place, and with a small creek running through it, and many pounds have been spent in sawdustirg and erecting platforms to make the place habitable and yet it is now worse than ever it was. We commend the Committee in their determination to apply to the Board for a sum of fifty ponnds to make the ground once and for all. If something is not done it will be necessary to close the school in future for the wet season, as no parents can be expected to send their children into such a slough,