EDUCATIONAL NEED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24824, 22 February 1944, Page 7

EDUCATIONAL NEED

WAIPOUA FOREST AREA The view that the Education .Department or the State Forest Service should take some action toward providing for the education of children in the settlement fit the Waipoua State Forest, North Auckland, is expressed h.v Mr. S. S. Green, of Donnelly's Crossing, in a letter to the Hkhald. Fie points out that there are no educational facilities whatever in this isolated spot: and that the children are growing up illiterate. . "The district is also desperately in need of a transport system connecting it with the post office and shopping centre at Donnelly's Crossing," adds Mr. Green. "I suggest that the departments concerned should provide a bus service from the forest to the Donnelly's Crossing School for the benefit of the 20 children now without schooling, and that special arrangements be made to enable those employed at the forest to use the service also." An official of the Auckland Education Board said yesterday that the Departments of Education and Native Affairs agreed upon the establishment of a native school at Waipoua Forest Inte last November. On request, the Education Hoard's architect supplied sketch plans and estimates for a school and a teacher's residence, but the board had received no more in- i formation. The matter was a departmental one. j