A COUNTRY SCHOOL.
WORKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. The children on the Dyer settlement, near Marti nborough, appear ib-bQ receiving instruction in the" three R's,' and other things, under disadvantageous circumstancos, if all that Mr. Hogg, M.P., say 3is correct, and .nothing' was revealed to the contrary in the discussion on the matter at the Education-B oard nu-ettng yesterday. While the v matter of the now school site :s being sottled, tho children are being taught in Hvhafc is known as tho Homestead, and' "to this place, says Mr. Hogg, "mothers will not send their children. They licar they'll catch diphtheria, scarlet fever, or somelhing of that sort. The -fact iB the school is hfld between a piggery and a stable and the smell is offensive. i\gain, the little ones arc much distracted oy the squeeling of the pigs when being killed-, and on theso occasions nioro attention is paid to slaughtering, than- any other branch of., useful knowledge " The board, already. Seiacd. of the urgency of the ca£e, agreed that no time (must bo lost in pottluiff the school site, which, as in most sitniuu places, has become a most, important- qUostion at Dyer. Mofsi's, Vile, Buchanan, and Hogg will inspect the school sites proposed, sand will ha^e Do_\ver to act. '
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1908, Page 2
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210A COUNTRY SCHOOL. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1908, Page 2
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