Cattle Pavilion Provides Airy School At the Showgrounds

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5581, 20 February 1931, Page 7

Cattle Pavilion Provides Airy School At the Showgrounds

With the large number of children in camp at the Showgrounds and several Hawke’s Bay teachers available the authorities wisely decided to mako arrangenients to give the children their schooling at the. Showgrounds, After consultation with the powers that be, it was decided to make use of tho cattle pavilion. The building was transformed in a very short time, floors were carofuily swept and disinfected and quantities of sawdust were spread and every necessary equipment was in place yesterday morning in readiness for opening school. When the warning for assembly was given 270 children from the .Showgrounds and billeted in

the city lined up for enrolment and were disposed as follows: —Standard VI., 31; Std. V., 4.1; Std., IV, 41; Std. 111., 39; Stds. 11. and 1., 70, and infants 48.

The pavilion is open all round and the scholars will have enough fresh air to satisfy the most ardent fresh air advocates. They quickly adapted themselves to their surroundings and were undoubtedly happy to resume their studies. The new school is well away , from the rest of the camp and the boundaries of the playing areas are clearly defined, all within being tapu except to the scholars and staff. In regard to the equipment, the Wanganui Education Board supplied tho necessary desks from their own stocks and from spare stocks in Palmerston North. Each child received its books and pencils, etc., and while lessons were undertaken yesterday a proper syllabus will be in full swing as from to-day, the hours being 9 a.m. to noon and 1.30 p.m. to 3 30 p.m. The school will be under tho supervision of Mr E. Bary, headmaster of tho Central School, while Mr. R. McGlashan, from Hastings Street School, Napier, is senior master in charge. Other members of the staff arc Mr H. Lunn (Po-toka), Miss de Lambert Hastings Central), Miss V. McLure (Nelson Park, Napier), Miss Beale (To Awa), Miss Hall (Taradalc) and Miss HaTvey, probationer. Tho preliminary arrangements for tlic school were made by Messrs E. Bary, headmaster of the Central School and A. W. Thompson, headmaster of Terraco End School with the co-oper-ation of Brigadier Whyte and Mr J. Lissington (inspector for the City Council), and it says much for the organising ability of these gentlemen that the school was available with so little loss of time. Mr Swanger, secretary of the Education Board, who, with Mr Hodge (architect) inspected the arrangements, said that the board was very much indebted to Messrs Thompson and Bary for the excellent way in which they had undertaken the organisation of tho classes, also to Brigadier Whyte for arranging tho children’s luncheons and Mr Lissington for preparing and supervising the disinfecting of the pavilions