OVERCROWDED SCHOOL.
■v. ' — : —. . _ (by TELEGIUMi. —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,) . Christchuroh, April 5. A gravo charge against the Education Department of overcrowding a school was mado at a meeting of. householders in Linwood. Tho speaker said ho ooiild tako anyono to a school in the North Canterbury district wliero one hundred and eiglity-ono children wore crowded in tho spaoo that was allotted by tho regulations to seventy-seven children. That meant that, in . tho spaco for forty-two children there were one /hundred, or that where there was room for ono child two and a half children wero crowded. "If a fanner packed two bullocks in a truck big enough for ono," said he, "ho would hear very quickly from tho Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. I can show anybody the school, and you will soo little girls in a room that on a hot summer day is a little Black Hoio of Calcutta."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 165, 6 April 1908, Page 5
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152OVERCROWDED SCHOOL. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 165, 6 April 1908, Page 5
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