OHAKUNE SCHOOL
Sir,-I listened recently to Dr. Turbott of the Health Department giving his daily talk and describing the bad con- | ditions prevailing in some of our New
Zealand schools. If he had wanted a classic example-an old school (fifty years in fact) with no facilities for washing hands after visiting toilet or before eating lunch, not enough seats so that children sit on the floor, and not enough latrines-he could very well have chosen Ohakune Primary School. What is the use of us mothers teaching our children hygienic habits-training them in healthy Ways when it is all negated by their behaviour at school? New schools have been built in Wanganui, and old schools modernised there. Aren’t farmers’ children to be considered at all? There is a big railway settlement here too, so conditions will get steadily worse as the number of pupils increases.
E. C.
HOLLAND
(Ohakune).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 24
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148OHAKUNE SCHOOL New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 24
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