A "MUSSOLINI" ABROAD

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1937, Page 14

A "MUSSOLINI" ABROAD

SCHOOL GROUNDS

IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES

The charge that there was some Mussolini at work sending Public Works Department men on to school property to introduce big improvement schemes without authority from the board and without consultation with the school committee or headmaster concerned was made by Colonel T. W. McDonald at the meeting of the Education Board today.

Asked by Mr. C. H. Nicholls if he had any idea who the person was who was doing this, Colonel McDonald said he had an idea. In confidence to the members of the board he told them who he thought was behind the matter, but named no one.

Colonel McDonald said he repreisented the board at the Johnsonville School celebrations on Saturday, and there he learned the astonishing fact that someone was sending Public Wfti'ks Department men on to school grounds to introduce big schemes of work for the improvement of the grounds without the knowledge or consent of the school committee or headmaster. Colossal works were being undertaken and they were works which did not always fit in with the requirements of the school committees and headmasters. It was causing considerable concern. • The board had not authorised such a procedure, and he was confident that the Minister of Education knew nothing of it, and that he would not agree withit.

There was, Colonel McDonald added, "some Mussolini somewhere," someone turning Public Works Department men into school grounds. He had undertaken to bring the matter before the board and he hoped the board would do something to stop what was going on.

The chairman (Mr. W. V. Dyer) said that the matter would be taken up with the Education Apartment.