MORE FLOOR SPACE
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS HOARD MF.MIIK!!' INDIGNANT (By Telegraph.—Press Association AUCKLAND. Wednesday Feelings of indignation and regret wore voiced by members of tlie Auckland Edimation Board ttiis morning when instructions were received from the Education Department setting out a decision to provide additional floor space in new classrooms. It was presumed that the decisili was part of the suggested move towards providing *2O square feet of space for each child, a figure which one member characterised as extreme. Members considered that if there was money available other more pressing needs sh oil id first be filled. The suggestions Included the provision of country teachers' houses, the replacement of halls used as schools, ihe expulsion of cuinlry schools, and the provision ol senibly hulls and swimming ha His. II was lefl to Ihe chairman. Mr T I . Wells, and the secretary |o communiiMle to Urn department wli.it suggestions lhe> thought tit.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20426, 17 February 1938, Page 3
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