A SCHOOL NEEDED

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 108, 9 May 1930, Page 8

A SCHOOL NEEDED

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Much has been said about the unemployed, especially among school teachers, and yet there is an avenue by which two at least of these could be employed, and not a stone's throw from fellington. I am referring to Ngahaurauga, which has no school at all. There are about fifty children of school age in thia developing little suburb, and at present the children have to attend either Petone, TKorndon, or Kaiwar'ra schools. The children attending the Thorndon and Petone schools are costing their parents 15s a quarter each, which is a big item out of a woi'king man's pocket, especially one who is unemployed.' The only other alternative is to make the children walk to Kaiwarra, or to make beggars of them at an early age, by begging lifts from pissing motorists. With little mites of five or six this is a very hazardous proceeding, and one that is fraught with great danger, especially on a road that is a motorists' Mecca. In any case the children have to cross the Hutt road at a very dangerous intersection. About six months ago the Minister of Education promised a deputation that a school would be opened this term. Another term -will soon be here, and the poor little Ngahauranga children will be trudging along the Hutt road, while their parents wait for a Minister to honour his promise.—l am, etc., NGAHAUKANGA.