HAMILTON SCHOOLS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18388, 2 May 1923, Page 10

HAMILTON SCHOOLS.

EXTENSIONS P REQUIRED.

FRANKTON AND MELVILLE,

j [BY telegraph—own correspondent.] HAMILTON. Tuesday.;. "The urgent need for a school at ; Melville, a steadily-growing ■■.--; district beyond the Waikato hospital, was emphasised by Mr.' M. . Schofieldlat; a meeting of ; householders to the West school last night. The number, of children in the district, he said, was continually increasing as the population grew. Some of the children had as far as three and-four miles to go to school. There were at least 100 ohil-' dren attending ■ the West school who should be going to a school .at Melville. The 'meeting decided to forward an urgent requisition to the Board of Education for the. speedy erection of a school at Melville. . The overcrowded condition of the Frankton school was discussed at-, the meeting of I householders "concerned. The meeting resolved ;to protest; against what is considered unnecessary delay in the. erection of -;;. the .j' two ;;: additional classrooms for which a grant has; been made, and to request the Education Boar d\ to J have ten-, era called-' and : the : work, put, in hand at once. : The fact that no provision : had-.been: made for .flooring or heating the marquee, ; that' was forwarded for, use was described, iby some speakers as scandalous... . .';*.;'! ■"> Considerable J; dissatisfaction was' ,«x----pressed at, several householders' " meetings I lin Hamilton last night at the cost,' of. | school requisites. At the' Hamilton East I meeting a ;-■ resolution was carried^to; the effect that ;it be a recommendation to 'the, new committee to .endeavour to bring about a conference of school;committees in the Waikato to discuss ways : and means* of supplying .; standardised books to the children at the lowest possible cost. ■ j