CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS
On the City Council's current'year's estimates is a suni' of £12,000 for the construction, of :-children's- playgrounds! ■'within the city area, arid with the pass-: age of.the City.Council Amendment Bill,1 permitting of the necessary resumption';----.a TO'mmoncement will be made tvifch: tlia: scheme.. The Kindergaxten Union' is cooperating with the council in a publicspirited way in order to give tho youngsters of squalid streets and poor congested .;quarters;.. more breathing andplaying space. ..".With.tho playgrounds established, and equipped, the union will, at its own expense, place in charge of each playground a lady who will look after the youngsters for their mothers,: and also teach tho children good, heal-! thy, invigorating games.' The union, as a matter of fact, is already doing this in the few cases whei'e the council now has playgrounds. Mothers who are driven' by necessity to go to work and who have to look to someone to watch and care for their yomigsters.while they are working/ regard the scheme" as a wonderful boon.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1924, Page 9
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178CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1924, Page 9
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