A NAPIER STORM.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 30 September 1915, Page 4

A NAPIER STORM.

AGAINST MEDICAL INSPECTOR'S REPORT ON SCHOOL. NAPIER, This Day. The Medical Inspector of Schools, Dr Elizabeth Gunn, recently visited Napier schools and in reporting to the Education Board on (Napier West, stated that she was rather surprised to find a high percentage of raal-nutrition subjects, wheiih could only be accounted for by the fact that the school was composed, mere or less, of undesirable children that came from This raised a storm, and a protest committee meeting last night passed a resolution emphatically demanding the names of tthe children referred to, and a full explanation by Dr Gunn of the word “undesirable.” Failing a satbuactory explanation that the statement oe unreservedly withdrawn and published throughout the Dominion, her report having been already published, casting a slur on a populous and healthy residential portion of Napier.