MOANA SCHOOL CLOSED

Grey River Argus, 21 March 1940, Page 11

MOANA SCHOOL CLOSED

Children Ordered to Ruru School PARENTS THREATENED BY BOARD. [Per Press Association, jl CHRISTCHURCH. March 20 ; The Moana School, on the Otira line, has been closed. There are about twenty children at Moana. The parents wish the school, to be reopened. 5 The Canterbury Education Board has decided that the parents of the Moana children shall receive absence notices from the t ßoard and that, unless the children resume ' attendance at the Ruru School, before April 30, the Board will, take further action. The Moana children have been required to go to Ruru, which is one and a-hal'f miles away, since the Moana School was closed. The parents, considering that their school should be re-opened, nave refused to make this change. The Board’s decision was made on the recommendation of its Transport Committee. This committee referred to the complaint that there was a danger in the children using th& tram service to Ruru, as they have to cross one railway siding and three sets of lines in. the mill yards. The committee said the headmaster at Ruru had written, undertaking to make adequate arrangements for the safety of the children travelline bv train.

The chairman of the Transport Committee, Mr. W. P. Spencer, said that the Board should adhere firmly to its decision—free rail transport had been provided between Moana and Ruru.