MARLBOROUGH SCHOOLS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1933, Page 5

MARLBOROUGH SCHOOLS

A STORMY INTERVIEW.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, September 5

The’Blenheim School Committee recently passed a resolution favouring Marlborough being included in the Nelson education district, instead of Wellington, as at present. As a sequel, plain speaking was indulged in at a conference, last night, between the Blenheim Committee and representatives of the Wellington Education Board, who were visiting Blenheim. One of the speakers accused the Wellington Board of neglecting Blenheim schools’ requirements, stressing the fact that for eleven years they had been trying to.get a new infant school. He described the present building in scathing terms. He also referred to the leaky roofs of the main school, and the earthquake risks which had been reported on by the Department. “We are so tired of the inefficiency of the Wellington Board that we voted to be transferred to Nelson.” The Chairman of the Wellington Board replied that the infant school had been held up because £6OO promised locally was not forthcoming. He also claimed it was the first his Board had ever heard of the Public Works Department’s earthquake report on the main school. He regretted that representatives of the Blenheim Committee had never taken the Board into its confidence in this matter.

A public meeting will be held, tonight, to consider the proposal to . link up with the Nelson education district.