DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 36, 25 January 1912, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

SCHOOLS AND CHILDREN. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, January 24, Mr E. C. Banks, a member of the Auckland Education Board, has made a suggestion to overcome the objection of the Education Department to the erection of a school unless an attendance of more than a score of pupils is assured. Ho proposed that in new districts shelter sheds should first be built to servo as temporary school buildings until the full complement of scholars would bo available for Lho use of inmpcr buildings. Upon the erection of the later the temporary buildings might bo used as shelter sheds. Mr Banks went to the extent of waiting on the Department in order to present bis proposal. At to-day’s meeting of the Board the eliairmaiJ (Mr J. J. Garland) made favourable comment upon the suggestion. He moved that, in order to test its efficacy, the Board’s architect be instructed to prepare plans for “shelter shod school” to cost about £SO, and that the same ho submitted to the Department with a view to the erection of a building in the district of Mbumonkai. This course was unanimously decided upon.