FIRE RISKS IN SCHOOLS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 186, 1 May 1908, Page 7

FIRE RISKS IN SCHOOLS.

EDUCATION V BOARD TO INVESTIGATE ' At yesterday's mooting of the .Wellington'. Education Board, Captain T. W. M'DonaM moved: J ./'" /■/ /" /■ . '■/ Vf^/V/ "That ,the v 'members of tho Board, . aooompanied ' by.' the'; Clerk of. AYorks, visit, and' inspect;' and report upon the ; '/means-'provided in', our city schools 'for ■ tho escario •of the children in rcaso of , fire, and"-:thati.'Mt; ;Cook Girls'. School be dealt with first." fjpeakiiig to. 1 the motion, Captain M'Donald ■ said that the lesson of the- recent school: disaster ,in America mado it most important ■tliat the : question of: lire risks in die city schools; should bo investigated bv the Board. 1 In the older buildings, tlio exit-doors opened inwards. Tlio Mt. ; Cook Girls' School: buildinigi-which' ho suggested should be/first;.; visited, had been condemned by the Board/ and -its' structural arrangement,' with regard to'its fire risks, was decidedly bad. / He./: urged'that the Board should lose no time in invcstigating;.thestructural,conditions>f the*/ large schools with regarr' to their: means / of exit in caso of fire; and ; ho-would suggest further that the assistance of a ftrc 'expert ; b.o/obtained for such inquiry as' v/cs' askeo - for in tlio motion.. ■//'/ / ■'~ - ' '' • / ■ ' Mr";' A. "H. Yjle. seconded,the,motion, whicl Was carried unanimously. ; ''//' : ' , ;/v r ''''i