HEATING A SCHOOL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3510, 21 June 1921, Page 46

HEATING A SCHOOL.

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TAKEN 'TO TASK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 14. The committee of the Kuiapoi School has decided to close the school if the Education Department does not fulfil the promise made regarding arrangements for adequate heating apparatus to be installed. Soma three mouths ago the department promised to install a hot water service, which would warm the school premises tinting the winter mouths. provided the householders subscribed a sum of £l5O towards the < oH. *1 ho money was subscribed, and a cir que was forwarded to the department, which has now reported that a deputation had visited the school and considered that the installation of three or four slow combustion stoves was all that, was necessary. At a meeting of the School Committee the chairman said slow-combustion stores had been previously tried, and bad proved failures, lie had it (-n good authority that the health of tho children was seriously affected through'insufficient heating of tho school, which was, in his opinion, indirectly the cause of tho development of so many cases of consumption in young children. It was decided to call a public meeting of protest against the action of the department.