SCHOOL AT KAIWARRA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11251, 1 July 1922, Page 14

SCHOOL AT KAIWARRA

NEW BUILDING REQUIRED. For some time past, the Kaiwarra residents have been agitating for a new school, and last evouing the householders of the district met to discuss ways and means by which the erection of the new school should be hastened. Mr E. Milne (chairman of the Kai warra School Committee), who presided, said that the time had come when an earnest appeal should be made for the school, and, in that, they solicited tho help of parents and householders alike. At present tho school was split, the seniors being lodged in the schoolhouse, and tho infants *ln a separate building further away. Mr It. J. Pope, headmaster, said that, as children were largely influ enceii by their environment, the Government should do its duty, and see that the child was comfortably housed -He considered that the Eaiwarra School was typical of the altitude of the Government towards education. Everything almost that- a school should possess was lacking in tho Kaiwarra School. The site was a monument to the stupidity of these who selected it. The building was stuck against a precipitous hill, and had an unsavoury stream within a few feet bf its front door. The design of the building was faulty, and it was impossible to have proper ventilation. The condition of the building was deplorable. A new site had been purchased, and plans had been prepared, but tho site was still in its virgin state, and the plans were still in the pigeon-holes. Meanwhile, children were growing up in these miserable surroundings, and their children would do unless the Government was roused to a sense of its obligations. Mr Sherbrook drew attention to tho large number of irailwaymen’s children who were attending the school, and suggested that the various railwaybodies be asked to co-operate in the movement.

Mr E. W. Barnes said that, on account of a large oil-store being situated within a short distance of the school, a gravi danger existed to tno children from heavy motor-traffic. It was decided to solicit help from tho Railway and Education Departments, and Mr It. A. Wright, M.P.