KELBURNE SCHOOL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1914, Page 9

KELBURNE SCHOOL

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — In company with " Wellington North," I — and, doubtless, many other parents — would like to know if the "senior class" school for Kelburne is likely to be built soon. On page 2of Wednesday's Post it is stated that the Government are paying over the money for the next instalment of the buildings, but I am told that the money indicated is not for the school proper, and that the upper standards are as far away as ever. If that is so, some of the residents will be sorely disappointed. My own children, with quite a number of others, have to walk past the school each day, and when one considers the shoe leather and car fares, and time spent in walking backwards and forwards twice each way per day, one is ndt too well pleased. It takes quite half an hour to get to the Terrace school, and on some of these wet, boisterous days the young girls in Standards 11. and 111. arrive at school in a very unsatisfactory condition. One needs no more eloquent testimony to the need of the advanced school than to stand, as I have done lately, at the' top of the cable ' car on a very wet morning, and count the dozens of children going to school, not including those' who have to walk over Kelburne Park. Moreover, these children cannot get their customary midday dinner, for it the weather is such that it allows thorn to come home, they arrive in so heated and excited a condition that it is not safe to give them a substantial meal in the few minutes they have left to "bolt" it in. We should be very grateful if you could in any way further the erection of the school proper by ventilating the matter and advocating our cause. — I am, etc., WELLIivUiUiN NORTH II 29th April, 1914. .