A NEW PRIMARY SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Age, 16 March 1922, Page 5

A NEW PRIMARY SCHOOL.

MOST MODERN IN DOMINION. P/.’merston North, March 15.—The Mm ter of Education to-day opened a new central primary school here. The ceremony was attended by a great crowd, 850 .pupils being ac- • -ornmodated in the gallery of the assembly hall of the building. In a speech, Mr Parr said the main school jcoHt £33,tJ00, and the detached infant department (opened by the Minister so«ne months ago) £lB.000. It was the most modern primary school in ihe Dominion. Later, Mr Parr opened a memorial library at the Boys’ High School, erected by subscriptions by old boys in memory of ex-scholars, numbering 69. who fell in the great war. In the evening, after receiving a deputation with reference to the establishment of a St. Helen’s Home, the Minister and Mrs Parr were entertained by the combined school committees and teachers.—(P.A.) Lead poisoning has been the cause of a number of mysterious deaths of rattle in the Wairarapa lately. Farmers have in some cases risen in the morning to find stone dead animals which were quite all right the night before. Several such oases have been investigated in the Piihautea district by the Government Veterinarian (Mr T. A. Blake), and they have, after much trouble, been traced to tins of red or white lead left about inadvertently after doing some painting or plumbing work. Not very long ago a Masterton dairyman lost four cows in the same manner. They had been straying and scavenging round a h al.-finished building and had got their tongues into the red lead pots Mr G. Killington has been appointed custodian of the Eketahuna Club from 140 applicants.