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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18051, 17 April 1924, Page 13

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PHILLIPSTOWN SCHOOL. TRAINING SCHEME TO BE SACRIFICED. The Buildings Committee reported to the Canterbury Education Board yesterday that a 'letter bad been received from the Department declining to make a grant for a model school at Phillipstown. It bad been resolved to recommend the Board to remove the existing model school and to return the infants to this part of the building, where they had previously been accommodated.

Mr E. 11. Andrew.-; said the Hoard had no'power to dissociate the model .school from Phillipstown, and it should not do anything to endanger its tcachpartmcnl to its' senses. If the Depurttbe school was overcrowded, and that there should not be 47 children quartered in 1 lie- corridor, but there should be some other means of bringing the Department to its seiices. If the Department would insist on sending down officers who could not see the seriousness of the position it was time that the officers were changed. Mr W. H. Winsor: "And in the meantime these children have to suffer.'" Mr Winsor went on to say. that the Buildings Committee considered that its recommendation would assist in moving the- Department into action. If anvbody had to suffer, it would have to be the* teachers, for they were not going to leave the children in the corridor for the winter. Mr C. S. Thompson supported the Building Committee. Mr T. Hughes said he would be sorry to see anything done to endanger their training scheme, but if it were a case of choosing between the teachers and the children, the children must be given first; consideration, Mr "W. D. Banks moved that the headmaster and chief inspector be asked to report on the conditions -at ' Phillipstown, and.the Department be informed that if no improvement was made within a month, the' Board proposed to close the model school and utilise the space for a. children's class-room. The motion was carried.