CENTRAL SCHOOL BUILDING

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1930, Page 3

CENTRAL SCHOOL BUILDING

(To the Editor). Sir,—No doubt many parents, like mvsclf, are very much concerned with the delay in the rebuilding of the Central School. Some mouths have now 1 elapsed since the school was burnt down, and both the teachers and children must be working under grave difficulties. It will be some months before the school can be rebuilt, and the longer the delay the longer the children will be handicapned. The cause of this is the possibility of the establishment of an intermediate school in New Plymouth. Alter reading the reports of the Education Board meeting (or what was allowed to be published) and the very poor opin-, ions expressed in favour of the report submitted, it is surprising that the whole thing was not turned down and that they did not, as Mr. McAllister put it, ■ “Go bald-headed for the construction of the primary schobl.” Now that the report has been adopted let us hope that the householders 1, meeting will be arranged as quickly an possible, and that the parents themselves will be there in good numbers., or we irav find when it is too late that after selecting our homes with due consideration to the children and the proximity to a school we shall be compelled to send them away to, a school in some other part of the town. In other words, the whole ,of . the arrangements made bv parents with ’ children attending schools throughout New Plymouth are to be disorganised, for what? I'or something that is admitted to be an experiment and a very- costly one at that. , - We want the central school .built as quickly as possible, and the parents will have no compunction in turning down any proposal which is likely to delay this.—l am, etc., A.H.