Open-air Schools
Sir, —Your correspondent. “Mrs. X,” states that “when the people of Orford Canterbury, wished for an open-air school (1923) the Minister of Education (at the time Sir James Parr) said all that he could to discourage them.’ She makes me say: “A room of the open-air type might be tried as an experiment, but I feel sure they will not ask for a second one. Both of the open-air schools nreviously built in New Zealand have been converted into ordinary rooms at the urgent request of the committees concerned.” I have had the official file turned up, which confirms me when I say that it made no such remark. As regards the Fendalton open-air school for which I was later responsible, I believe the teachers, the committee, the parents and the children agree that this school, as regards the health and wellbeing of both pupil and teacher, has decided advantages over the usual type of school built. My experience abroad has strengthened my opinion that this country is suitable for the open-air type of school. Moreover, money could be saved in building schools. —I am, etc., C. J. PARR, Patron of the Open-Air Schools' League.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 171, 15 April 1932, Page 13
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