FRANKTON SCHOOL.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15024, 22 August 1922, Page 6

FRANKTON SCHOOL.

(To the Editor). Sir, —With reference to Mr Harris’ letter of the 14th inst. as chairman of the Frankton West Parish Hall Committee and also a member of the Frankton School Committee may I say a few words on this matter. As Mr Harris says, the Education Board wrote to the school committee instructing them to inquire what rental the hall committee would ask for the use of the hall. The head teacher informed me that the hall would be required for one class (about 50) under the second assistant teacher, and he gave me his word 1 that every care would be taken that no damage would be done. At the last meeting of the hall committee no communication was received from the school committee, but as seven members are oil both committees, I mentioned the matter and there was an informal discussion, and I am sorry to say that by an overwhelming majority the members of this church committee thought more of a little'inconvenience to their dances than the health of 400 children. Now, sir, as the hall is out of the question, what is to be done? In an article in the Times of the 12th you state that 150 houses are to be erected in the railway suburb. The children from these houses will have to attend the Frankton School. Whatever is going to happen then? The school is now overcrowded; these poor little children' are crammed into the class-rooms and also into the corridor, undermining their health. What sort of constitution will they have in later life to fight disease? Now they have been brought into the world are they not worth some care and consideration? Fathers and mothers of Frankton, it is your little ones I am talking of. At the annual meeting of householders Mr Harris was the only parent besides those elected as a committee who had enough interest to attend the meeting. I have seen this overcrowding. If you, Mr Editor, would send one of your staff to enquire into this matter, let him call at the - school and see things for himself, as I did. I am sure the head teacher would be pleased to let him see through the school. And let the ministers preach it in the churches, then perhaps the parents of this town will awake and get something done. Hamilton has far outgrown its school accommodation, and something will have to be done — and that soon. I trust, sir, that some of the ’ public-spirited people of this town will take the matter up.—l am, etc., , ' L. G. MORRIS. Rifle Range Road, Frankton, { August 21, 1922.