SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 164, 17 July 1946, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

KEITH STREET SCHOOL We have been trying to work out how many more letters will have to pass between the chairman of Ihe Wanganui Education Board and the Minister of Education (Mr. Mason) before the foundation stone of the new Keith Street primary school is laid. Mum says there will be 210 more letters (all told) and about another 100 columns of newspaper type before the stone is laid. You can work out for yourself how long that will bo before a man with a hard hat is presented with a gold key, which he turns in a lock and says: “Keith Street. 1 declare thee well and truly open!” Judging by the song the Keith Street children are going to greet their teachers with this morning. they have high hopes of seeing that key and hearing those words before they die. They know how fragile hopes can be, however, yet still they'll sing: Gin 'a scholar meet a scholar, coming through the news. Gin a Keith Street greet a Keith Street, need a Keith Street lose? 11-ka school-room has its comforts, nane Cut all ihe schools they’ll smile at us. ah jest you wait and see. Can’t a chairman write to Mason, need a Mason cry? Can't a Mason build a school-room, Jaat before wo die? 11-ka school-room has its comforts, nane tMy say ha’e we. But all the schools, they'll smile at u«, ah just you wail and see. Watch a Mason build a school-room, comtag through the news. Watch u chairman build a school-room, twisting in the screws. Il ku school-room has its comforts, nane they say ha’e we. But all the schools they’ll smile at us. ah JUSt you watt :.nd see. 11-ka paper wants mole letters, all they say to print, Then all the world will smile at us with lipa of r tsy lint. 11-ka school-room has Its comforts, nane they say ha’c we. But all th.'' wmld will smile at u«. ah juit you wait and see. -"‘•SANDY.’* Wanganui, July 16, 1946. ,•