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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4455, 27 June 1893, Page 2

The Education Board recently erected a schoolroom at Mauriceville East, upon n site suitable in other reapects, but wbioh the members aud officials of the Board knew required drainin". The school, during tbe last few months, has bren surrounded on all sides by what can only be described as a quaking morass. The local Committee, having appealed time after time to t'io Board only to find that it is trifled with, hasdeoided that it will no longer undertake tbe responsibility of keeping the school open, diseaso having already shown itself among the children, in conseqneooo of their insanitary surroundings. The school will therefore be dosed until the Board grant the Committee a sum sufficient to drain and give access to tbe school or exeoutethe work itself. As a few pounds [spent in drainage while the building was in course of erection would have made tho site all that could be desired, tho whole matter is exceedingly discreditable to the Education Board which seems reluctant to deal fairly with the legitimate requirements of distant country sohools unless some | Special influence is brought to bear upon it,