PARENTS PROTEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 69, 21 March 1940, Page 11

PARENTS PROTEST.

CHILDREN KEPT AT HOME. EDUCATION BOARD'S WARNING. (By Telcfrrnph.—Press Association.) CIfRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. The parents of about 20 children at Aloana, on the West Coast, 25 miles from Greymouth, will receive absence notices from the Canterbury Education Board, and, unless the children resume attendance at the Ruru School before April 30, the board will take further action. The children have been required to go to Ruru, one and a half miles away, since the Moana School was eloped, and the parents of the Moana children, considering that the school should be reopened, have refused to make the change. The lioard's decision was made on the recommendation of its transport committee, which also referred to the complaint that there wa* a danger in the children using the train service to Ruru, as they would have to c-roee a railway siding and three sets of lines in the mill yards. The headmaster at Ruru had written undertaking to make adequate arrangements for the safety of the children travelling by train. The chairman of the transport committee, Mr. W. P. Spencer, said the Iwiml should adhere tirmly to its decision, as free rail transport had been provided between Moana and Ruru.