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DEADLOCK AT SCHOOL CHILDREN OF PUKEMIFIO FREE RAIL TICKETS WANTED OUTCOME OF PARENTS' MEETING [by telegraph—OWN' correspondent] HUNTLY, Monday A number of school children residing at Pukemiro Junction and attending Rotowaro school, a distance of two miles by rail and three miles by road, failed to present themselves when the school reopened this morning. The parents of the children concerned held a meeting last Friday evening, when they protested against the alleged action of the Education Board in refusing to grant free railway tickets to school children over 10 years of ago. and stated that failing the granting of free tickets to all the school children attending the Rotowaro school from Pukemiro Junction, or as an alternative the erection of a school at Pukemiro Junction, they would refuse to send their children to school. The number of children attending Rotowaro school from Pukemiro Junction is estimated at about 53, a very small percentage of children under 10 years of age being included. This morning only four or five children put in an appearance. The children at present over 10 years of age attending school have to pay for their tickets, otherwise they have to walk the three miles, and the road in some parts is not considered very good.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22210, 10 September 1935, Page 8
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