DEPRESSED AREAS
CONDITIONS FOR CHILDREN AN OUTSPOKEN HEADMASTER “BLIGHTED SCHOOLS” (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right) LONDON, 17th December. “We cannot produce A 1 soldiers in blighted schools on C 3 rations from these depressed areas,” declared Mr Eddie Williams, headmaster of Blaina Boys’ School, Monmouthshire, criticising the conditions under which children are educated in such areas. H 6 pointed out: “It is humbug for the Government to expect teachers to cooperate in its physical fitness campaign when the Exchequer’s contribution of 20 per cent, towards the cost of clothes and boots for physical training is a mere dangling of carrots before donkeys. How are we going' to find the other 80 per cent,” he added. “The children sit with almost empty stomachs in freezing schools and have tuberculosis and rheumatism stalking their footsteps. Fifty per cent, of my boys are undersized and emaciated.’
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 9
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144DEPRESSED AREAS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 9
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