SILVERSTREAM SCHOOL

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1922, Page 8

SILVERSTREAM SCHOOL

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Would you kindly allow me space in your columns to correct an impression of a resolution that was carried at a recent meeting of the householders of Silverstream ? The meeting was convened to discuss the necessity for a school and aleo'with a view.of approaching the Education Department. The resolution referred to was to the effect that the children would proceed from Silverstream by the 9.30 a.m. train instead of . the 8 a.m., this to come into operation for the duration of the winter months, viz., 7th June to Ist September. The impression, is that' the meeting was attempting to harass the Department or board. I can assure you, Sir, that the spirit of the meeting was above such tactics. The resolution was made in no carping spirit but with a keen desire to help the kiddie 6. " No one more regrets the necessity for such a resolution than the residents of Silverstream, as it was expected that a school would have been erected before this winter. It was only after much discussion as to the best way out of the difficulty,that the motion was put to the meeting. While the residents of this district are aware that the Education Department recognises their claim, they wish to point out that the erection of a school is an a.bsolute urgent requirement for the growing district. There. were only two factors for consideration : (1) Tlje children, to 105e ; 45 minutes' instruction ; (2) the children to be at Upper Hutt 45 minutes before the school opened. The meeting decided that the former was the lesser of the two evils and the resolution was carried unanimously. To quote only one case of hardship of the many last winter : After the departure of the school train which brought the children from Upper Hutt to Silverstream a little girl was discovered lying in a state of collapse. The child was carried home and lay between life and death for weeks, having contracted pneumonia as a result of exposure. No, Sir, the residents of Silverstream are not out to harass the Minister or the Department. -They are entitled to a. school. They want a school, and 'until the Department will authorise the grant they are quite within their rights, as parents, to protect the health of the man and womanhood of to-morrow who to-day ' cannot help themselves. — I am, etc., > C. H..EITZEMA. , Bth June.

At a meeting of the shareholders of (he .Ahiarulie-Dairy Company at Carter ton yesterday, a resolution favouring the proposed dairy, pool was rejcctpd. The shareholders of the Kokotsui Dairy Company 'decided to support, the proposal.