SCHOOL SITES.
MINISTER’S NEW POLICY
GREATER AREA ALLOTTED.. The Minister- of Education, Sir James Parr, announced last' week a new policy in regard to the area to lie allotted to school sites in the future. ' “I hope,” said the Minister, “to leave to my successors. in office, in every case where we have purchased la lid* for school sites throughout NewZealand, a commodious area of from three and a half acres to four acres, occupying a prominent situation. “This will be an improvement on the old policy, under which I succeeded to a legacy of some *ISOO schools in the Dominion, having less than an average of three-quarters of- an acre of ground each, and some of them accommodating from 700 to 800 children. “It is a rather sad instance,” added the Minister, “of the lack of prevision in days gone by, when the playground was not awarded its proper perspective or status, as one of the most valuable of educational adjuncts.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 March 1925, Page 4
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