High school change
Sir,—For some years I ran a small circuit in Otago Central picking up pupils for my tiny school. The present, larger school, some eight miles closer to the outside world, was recently described as “surely the most remote school in New Zealand.” Climatic and road conditions were so bad in winter that neither inspectors nor other officials came there in the winter term. Any mention of country school consolidation always brings to my mind a picture, not of clerks gloating over tidier maps in heated offices, but of very small children waiting at bleak farm gateways in sub-zero temperatures. A child’s school day in winter in the country is long enough without needless hours of travelling time.—Yours, etc., J. F. WILLIAMS. October 15, 1976.
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Press, 18 October 1976, Page 18
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