CROWDED SCHOOL
HEADMASTER'S COMPLAINT O.C. DARGAVILLE, this day. "Pupils are jammed in the coni dor and in the library and I don't think it is right that it should be allowed to go on," said the headmaster, Mr. H. Parsons, when strongly condemning the shortage of accommodation and the lack of a playing area in his report to the Dargaville School Committee last evening. Physical training was restricted at the primary school through., the lack of a playing area, Mr. Parsons added. The boys could not train for football until they reached the high school, and metal had to be scraped off the basketball courts to allow the girls to play in comfort. The urgent need for action is to be placed before the Education Board and- also -Mr. T. C, Webb, JVI.P. for Kaipara.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 215, 11 September 1945, Page 2
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