RICHMOND SCHOOL.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17747, 26 April 1923, Page 3

RICHMOND SCHOOL.

♦ UNSATISFACTORY CONDITION. At the meeting of householders, held at* Richmond School on Monday evening a bombshell was thrown by one ot the householders when discussing the attitude of the Education Board regarding the repairs of the school. He remarked that it only wanted another severe earthquake to give the brick portion of the school the "finishing touch," and all would be over. When trams went past the whole top floor swayed to and fro. The rotten state of the building was the cause of the decreased attendance, as parents would not send their children there. He went on to say that the Minister of Education Tiad said at Opawa that West Christchurch was the first one to be repaired. Richmond's case should have been attended to before West Christchurch. It was moved that the meeting should adjourn and inspect the dilapidated portion, but the idea of climbing the stairs in the dark did not appeal to those present, and the motion lapsed. Just then a big rat poked his head out from a hole in the wall as if to givo more weight to the speaker's remarks. Then a woman —there were four of them present —remarked that it woUiil be a good idea if an earthquake did come and "settle" the school, because the Government would then hare to build a* new school, and that was what they wanted. . Eventually a motion was earned that | the incoming committee abould drftW-j the authorities' attention to the serious, rtate of tha