OVERCROWDED SCHOOLS.

Southland Times, Issue 14635, 27 January 1911, Page 2

OVERCROWDED SCHOOLS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —1 have read with much interest the article entitled "Xew Zealand and the Coronation,” which appeared in Monday's issue of your paper. Will you allow me space in your columns to say that I hope with you that pressure will lie brought to hear by the people with sufficient force to convince the Prime Minister that it is not desirable that money should be spent in lavish and unnecessary display while the little children in our schools have to endure overcrowded and' insanitary conditions. How deplorable these conditions really are is not yet fully realised hy the parents or they would not be tolerated for a single year. Oli that the people would awake from their apathy and cry as with one'voice: “We will not allow our children to lie robbed of health and happiness on die plea that no money is available to right their wrongs, while expenditure in other directions is unnecessarily lavish.” In the name of the people known to mo who arc in perfect agreement with the opinions you have expressed, and in liie name of . the- suffering little ones who next week once more must face the dangers and discomforts that exist in too many of our primary schools, I venture to offer you an expression of gratitude for the protest you have made.— 1 am, etc., S.G.