SCHOOL CLASSROOMS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 154, 26 March 1938, Page 17

SCHOOL CLASSROOMS

Proposed Increase In Size Supported At Napier

Dominion Special Napier, March 25. Support for the Government in its proposals to increase the size of school classrooms is given by the Napier branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute. At the annual meeting held last night the branch passed a motion stating that it recognised the total inadequacy of the present floor space of 12 square feet for each child.. It whole-heartedly supported the Minister of Education in his determination to increase the minimum size of the rooms to 24ft. 6in. by 26ft., thus providing additional space essential to success in modern methods of teaching. The following officers were elected: — President, Mr. N. H. Tunnicliff (Hastings Street School) ; vice-president. Miss A. C. Tebbs (Intermediate School).; secretary and treasurer, Mr. R. McMurray (Nelson Park School) ; auditor, Mr.- E. W. Mills, M.A. (Intermediate School) ; management committee, Miss D. Crumpton (Intermediate), Miss E. Munro (Hastings Street), Mr. R. Brown (Taradale), Mr. T. Latta (Te Awa), Mr. C. B. Lopdell (Puketapu) ; delegates to Health Camp Association, Mr. R. McGlashen and Miss E. Munro; delegates to Napier branch of Crippled Children’s Society, Miss A. C. Tebbs; delegates to Hawke’s Bay Federation of Branches, Messrs. N. H. Tunnicliff and R. McMurray ; representative on Hawke’s Bay Centennial Historical Committee, Mr. J. Hislop.