OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19985, 21 July 1930, Page 13

OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.

W TO THB EBITOB Or THE PBBSB j, jgir f —I was much surprised to read { the remarks of Mr W. H. Winsor, ' number of the Canterbury ij.fdaeafcion Board, particularly ffthl* the doctors seem not to ' jnch to work with the Board. As far J * j»'l can make out, the contrary is the Hfcet. The Board, on the other hand, 'p-Urn not appear willing to accept any "fdhpoe from the medical profession. S'SfirTruby King, who has probably done iaiwt* for the youth of this Dominion ■Lth*a any other man. stressed the value ftf the Fendalton type of open-air lichool. '? ■■ It is unfortunate that when there is r % good type of open-air school, which \-)m net with the unqualified approval " «f aD the members of the medical pro*>{wion who have seen it, and a type Ig&kh is beginning to be widely copPfj3, the Canterbury Education Board 1 Aonld persist in building inferior imitations. i With reference to Mr Winsor's res' Marks about doctors, may I point out :: Ujat he does not appear to have fSnaied history, or he would have |JMnied that all great discoveries in Minnntvre medicine were made by men gagfcively engaged in curing disease. |flw medical profession realises that it ftt essential to have a healthy race ISwl, particularly, healthy young Ijepple. and that curative and prevenEpm work must go hand in hand. KtAfter all. we do not want our chil-. Ken to be put into steam-heated ■gatehouses, which are more suited for Baring delicate nlants than sturdy Hdldren.—Yours, etc., ■rßir-apth, 1930. v •- ■ «i- <* •