VALUE OF SUNSHINE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 6

VALUE OF SUNSHINE.

OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.

THE IDEAL SYSTEM.

The day of schools with dart sombi* walls and high roofs should be past, said Mrs. A. E. Stretton at the annul meeting of householders at Stanley Bay last evening. She considered that Auckland had lagged behind in the matter of open-air schools, while, with the favourable climate it possessed, it should bar* taken the lead. Flat-roofed schools where children could get the mannum of sunshine in the winter-time, was the ideal school, and that system ehonld always be considered when alterations were being made to school-buildings. Stanley Bay school, with others, was excellently situated for being made into aa open-air school. A lady who was familiar with tin open-air schools in other part* of the Dominion, fully endorsed what Mis. Stretton had said. Mr. W. K. Hewitt said he had been most favourably impressed with the open-air schools he had seen in Christchurch when on a recent visit there. Tba open-air school at the Cashmere Hills erected with a flat roof especially for the use of children born of T.B. parents, mai a model of what such a school ought to be. It was very hard to tell some of the children from little Maoris, so tanned had their skins become through exposure to jhe sunshine. He said that it was a shame to shut children up in rooms walk there was so much sunshine outside.