FUTURE OF A SCHOOL
PARENTS OPPOSE CLOSING KEEN FEELING AROUSED [by TEL EG HA I'll —OWN CORRESPONDENT] "U'AN'G AXL'I, Thursday The proposal of the Wanganui Education Board to close the Taonui school, in the Feilding district, and convey children to L.vtton Street school has aroused considerable interest. Parents resented the proposal, held a meeting of protest, and backed it up by a deputation to the Minister of Education, Hon. I'. Eraser. It is understood the Minister is favourably disposed toward centralisation, but he said the matter of memorial gates having been erected to old pupils killed in the Great War would weigh heavily with him. They were far too expensive to form an entrance to a grazing paddock. A settler in the locality states that if the board attempts to force the issue, all parents of.children attending the school will declfire Lytton Street school ''black'' and will refuse to send their children there.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22319, 17 January 1936, Page 10
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