KAIWARRA'S NEED

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1922, Page 11

KAIWARRA'S NEED

NEW SCHOOL WANTED.

For some time past, the Kaiwarra residents have been agitating for a new school, and last evening the householders of the district met to d"i6cuss ways and means by which the «rection of the new school should be hastened.

Mr. F. Milne (chairman of tho Kaiwarxa School Committee), who presided, said that the time had come when an earnest appeal should be made for the school, and, in that, they solicited the help of parents and householders alike. At present the school was split, the seniors being lodged' in the schjoolhouse, and the infant* in a separate building further away.

Mr. R. J. Pope, headmastei-, said that, as children were largely influenced by their environment, the Government should do its duty., and see that the child was comfortably housed. He considered that the Kaiwarra School was typical of the attitude of Government towards education. Everything almost that a school should possess was lacking in the Kaiwa.rra School. The site was a monument to the stupidity of those who selected ib. The building wae stuck against a precipitous hill, andl had. an unsavoury stream withiti a few feet of its front door. The design of the build)ing was faulty, and it was impossible to have proper ventilation. The. condition, of the building was'deplorable. A new site had been purchased, and plane had been prepared, but the site was still in its virgin ..state, and the plaiw wero still in the pigeon-hole. Meanwhile, childiren were growing up in these miserable surroundings, and their children, would do likewise, unless the Government was roused to a sense of its obligations. Mi". Sherbrook drew attention to the large number of railwaymeii's children who were attending the school, and suggested that tho. various railway bodies be asked to co-operate in the movement.

Mr. E. W. Barnes said that, on account of a large oil-storo being situated within a. short distance- of tho school, ai grave danger existed to the children from heavy motor-traffic. Ib was dtecidied to solicit help from tha Railway and Education Depairtawints, and Ma-. B. A. Wright, M.P.

A meeting is to be held later, when the position will again be discussed.