OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20260, 21 March 1934, Page 12

OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.

Officers Elected at League’s Annual Meeting. nalt IlG v-Poi iVi< J es of t . he lea £ue during the past year were reviewed at the annual meetmg of the Open-Air Schools League e Y, cnlns ' The president, Professor J. Shelley, presided. adopted!"””* 1 report was unanimously f.l‘hTo e «J?, Banc ®. of the lea 6ue is in the fashionable and usual position of havmg a substantial debit balance,” said Professor Shelley. “We have been so used to leaving things to the Govern- ,' ve have forgotten how to nelp oui selves. The Government is somewhat in the position of the Creator ririi,nVL ~0» h sJ p tho «e who do not help IJ . e made a pica for subMi« T r< t^ Uce the debit of £l2. k- Da we. the secretary, receited the congratulations of the league on her invaluable services to the movement over a Jong period of years PiTsidc, f 1 ? ll °r' , ,. in c S: office i* s wer ® elected: i,, 1 1 fe , s ?° r J • Shelley ; trea\fiS’r « n ßuckley , : j°int secretaries, .Miss J. b. Davve and Mr W W Xiountreo: executive. Mrs T. E. Taylor Airs Vlestall, Miss E. A. Chaplin. D? F. V RMta n ii B Thom«f r A ,‘ $■ O-Bvlen. Hr J. ■uestaji Thomas and Mr A. C. Cottrell. School Pictures. eon elusion of an address by fell Louis Barnett, Mr W. W. Rountree varinnt a series of lantern 'slides of * >pes . of schools in Great America and the Continent of E-urope, and described the construction of these schools. Of particular interest were tlie slides depicting London openair schools with their arrangements for chtldren PUlSOiy rest Periods for the Dr F. V. Bevan-Brown expressed the thanks of the league to the council of canterbury'- University College for the n 3”. of . the Tittle Theatre. He stated ‘ lat n , his belief that the attendirected the leafeue . would in time be directed to primary’schools. 1 " aS ”° W