A walk of 12 miles a day, or 60 a week, to attend school was tho record credited to a child six year 3 of ago in a letter to tho Nelson Education Board on Monday from tho Littlo Wangamii School Committee, applying for a grant for fencing, in order that horses might be used by the children of out-lying settlers to reach tho school. The board unanimously resolved to make a granb.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3353, 19 June 1918, Page 23
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