THE PARNELL SCHOOL.
tT6 the' Editor.) Sir, —Will you allow mc to add my protest against the action of Mr. L. J. Bagnall (chairman of the Education Board) in flippantly treating the matter of. the Parnejl School Committee's recommendation that all school doors should be hung to open outwards? Your sub-leader in to-night's "Star" deals very properly with this matter. The duties of a school committee have been and are so limited that it is almost a perfect farce for them to send on any recommendation to the Board, and I sincerely trust that the Parhell porough Council will exercise their powers and compel the Board to have the doors so hung that there shall be not the slightest possibility of such a dreadful disaster as that which recently occurred in America: The fact that Mr. Bagnall complacently remarks that for over half a cenitury no panic had occurred nor serious accident happened does not justify the Board in ignoring the Parnell School Committee's recommendation. I strongly urge all school committees to combine and insist that the Board shall set up a commission to report upon the means of egress in all the schools of the Auckland province.—l am, etc., F.C. April 29. 1908.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 105, 2 May 1908, Page 7
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