NAPIER WEST SCHOOL
AN ALLEGED SLUR. ' (BT TELKJKAPH.— PHISS ASSOCIATION.) " NAPIER, This Day. .The Medical Inspector of, Schools, Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, recently visited the Napier schools, and, reporting to -the Education Board on the Napier West School, stated that she was rather surprised to find a high percentage of the children suffering from malnutrition, which could only be accounted for by the fact that the school ' was composed of more or less undesirable children who had come from other schools. This has raised a storm of protest, and at a committee meeting last night a resolution was passed emphatically demanding the names of the children referred to and a full explanation by .Dr. Gunn regarding the word "undesirable.". Failing a satisfactory explanation, the, "committee asks that the doctor's statement be' unreservedly withdrawn and the fact published throughout the Dominion, her report having been already published casting a slur on a populous and. healthy residential portion of Napier.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 78, 30 September 1915, Page 8
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157NAPIER WEST SCHOOL Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 78, 30 September 1915, Page 8
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