“JUNGLE GYMS” CONDEMNED
Doctor's Letter To Education Board (NX Preu Aasociatton) INVERCARGILL. Feb. 22. "Already within the first week of the school year, casualties, some very severe, are streaming in from those 'confounded monkey bar* ” the Southland Education Board was told today in a letter from Dr. C. C. Anderson, of Invercargill. “When will you people realise that these apparatus are potentially dangerous in themselves, and furthermore that the risk of severe injury is incrMsed out of all proportion by setting the apparatus on concrete platforms?
“Personally I consider this criminal." Dr. Anderson said. The board agreed that the position was serious, and decided that all school committees be ordered to remove all types of climbing equipment from hard surfaces to grass, or to provide them with sand or sawdust pita.
No Morning SeaitoM.—The British. Prime Minister (Mr Macmillan) yesterday turned down a suggection that the House of Commons should follow the example of the Parliaments of Australia and New Zealand by meeting in the morning for question time.—London, Feb. 22.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30064, 23 February 1963, Page 12
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