PLAIN SPEAKING

Southland Times, Issue 22113, 6 September 1933, Page 8

PLAIN SPEAKING

CHANGE DESIRED BLENHEIM SCHOOL COMMITTEE WELLINGTON BOARD ASSAILED (Per United Press Association.) Blenheim, September 5. The school committee recently passed a resolution favouring Marlborough being included in the Nelson education district instead of Wellington as at present. As a sequel, plain speaking was indulged in at a conference last night between the Blenheim Committee and representatives of the Wellington Education Board who are visiting Blenheim. One of the speakers accused the Wellington Board of neglecting the Blenheim schools’ requirements, stressing the fact that for eleven years they had been trying to get a new infant school. He described the present building in scathing terms and also referred to leaky roofs in the main school and earthquake risks which had been reported on by the department. “We are so tired of the inefficiency of the Wellington Board that we voted to be transferred to Nelson.” The chairman of the Wellington Board replied that the infant school had been held up because the £6OO promised locally was not forthcoming. He also claimed it was the first his board had ever heard of the Public Works Department earthquake report on the main school. He regretted the representatives of the Blenheim Committee had never taken the board into its confidence in this matter.

A public meeting will be held tonight to consider the proposal to link up with the Nelson education district.