KINDERGARTEN SECTIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19785, 10 May 1926, Page 6

KINDERGARTEN SECTIONS.

In connection with the discussion which has taken place concerning the sections acquired at Caversham for kindergarten purposes, Mrs T. K. Uidey furnishes us with the following stale". , nt; "After reading tho report of the City Council’s last meeting, 1 found that there seemed to to some misapprehension, and I should like to try and make myself clear. in re fcrence to my speech at the Dunedin i- reo Kindergarten Association's annual meeting on the subject of the sections in Marion street which the council was purchasing, 1 said that the deal did not altogether eventuate. Some of the members of the council thought I referred to the exchange of these sections with the kindergarten section; but I really meant that the council could not acquire all the sections it wanted. One member stated that tho Kindergarten Association had not approached the council, and that there had been no negotiations lor an exchange of sections. That was quite incorrect, for the kindergarten secretary wrote on June 8,102 b asking whether the council had been able to secure the middle section, and it so, could w havo two sections—preferably the corner and middle ones—in exchange for some of our land. On July .8, 1925, we received a reply from the council offering us two sections in Marion street —but not together—in exchange for the whole of our section, and telling us it did not own the middle section These two sections were of no use to us without the middle section. However, we tried the placing of the school in the corner section, but it was not wide enough, the school taking up all the space frora°fcnco to fence Therefore the experts and our executive thought it would be too cramped, so it was decided to build on tho kindergarten section which Messrs Hudson had bought for that purpose, and which is in the name of the Dunedin tree Xvindcrgaiton Association.”