HUNTERVILLE SCHOOL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11760, 20 February 1919, Page 5

HUNTERVILLE SCHOOL.

SOME SCATHING REMARKS. Some e cathiug remarks were made at the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board last night by the chairman ( Mr E. Pirani) in connection with the Huuterville school. “This is a matter' in which w© should take strong stops,” said the Chairman. ‘ ‘lt at Huuterville they cannot find accommodation for the assistant teacher —a single girl—they are not civilised, and I think the Board should close the school. It is a crying scandal that they will net move a finger to get accommodation for a lady tiacher, and I was going to suggest that we do close the school until they do find her accommodation. We have had to take this step with seme of the smaller schools, and is all the more reason fwhy we should do it at Hunterville. It Is very unfair to work a teacher short-handed simply because the assistant cannot get accommodation. I believe the only one who has tried to do anything is the chairman cf the committee. Mr Collins: We must take that course of action in every case. The Chairman: W© have done that in half a dozen cases already, and it is time we did it at Hunnterville.* We find a house for the head teacher, but it is up to the lesidents in the interests of the children to find accommodation for assistant teachers. —Chronicle.