THE NGAERE SCHOOL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 21 February 1929, Page 5

THE NGAERE SCHOOL

1 QUESTION OF KE-BUjIIDING.

PBIOOTJINGi FOll THE FUTURE.

A deputation from th e Ngaere School Committee was introduced to the Taranaki Education Board yesterday by Mr W. J. Poison, M.P. Mr Poison, in introducing the deputation, said the scho'ol _at .Ngaere had been burnt down early In October last., Ngaere, he said, was a progressive /district, thtejre was every likelihood of closer, settlement,and the authorities should see that the new school would be adequate for future development. ’ Mr Hi C. Taylor, chairman of the 1 committee, • said the original plans ■provided for three classrooms and a teachers’ room. That plan had been turned down because the attendance was at a low ebb. The second plan reduced the classrooms to two, and later the teachers’ room •was cut ou!t. He claimed that country schools were entitled Ho the same facilities as town schools, and urged that the new school should have two classrooms and a teachers’ room.

Mr Scott, another member of the committee, endorsed Mr Taylor’s remarks. '' At' l '*4

The chairman of the Board (Mr S. G. Smith, M.P.D said the Department 'had made a grant of $1172 for two rooms.

■ Mr Taylor said he could not see why there* should not be a teachers’ room, just because there were only 75 pupils. ' Both Mr Smith and Mr Dempsey expressed the opinion that a tea-

chers’ room was necessary, and Mn Smith will support the committee when it makes representations on the matter to the Minister of Education at Stratford to-morrow.