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Milton P. & C. Association.
hilton.
21st Decerfiber,
1945.
The Einister for Education,
Parliament House,
SYakEY.
Dear Sir:
I have to again draw your attention to the
unsatisfactory conditions prevailing at the lilton
Central School and to urge you to take immediate action
to ensure that they will he improved.
There ore only two small tanks at the school and
they are seldom full as the guttering and down pipes are
in bad condition. There are nearly 200 pupils at the
school and some of these reside 9 miles from the school and
At times the children are without
some ride to school.
water for a considerable period.
There is no weathershed at the school and children
have no shelter from wind or rain even to have their lunch
My association
unless they use a room of the school.
considered your proposal to :move a shed. from Croobyer closed
school to Milton at the expense of the P. & C. but considered
that the matter was entirely one for the Department's Tesponsibility and would take no action as the building would
become the property of the department after the Association
spending probably a considerable amount of money and having
no say in the matter of their erection.
Parents here are most dissatisfied with the lack of
accommodation. They are forced to send their children to
school under threat of a fine but when they arrive at school
I understand that 57
they are forced to sit on the floor.
children are in the Infants' Section in a room which has seats
Seventeen have to sit on the floor.
for 42.
We consider too, that pupils being prepared for the
intermediate examination should not, be taught in a MOM where
there are two clas;3es and two teachers.
Surely country children should not be so handicap,)ed
as to concentrate on learning with a teacher talking and
instructing another class is a handicap that is difficult to
overcome where at other schools children being prepared have
no such inconvenience.
The Headmaster informs me that the Methodist Hall and
the Salvation Army Hall can both be obtained as a suitable
It is nearly 12
class room to relieve the present congestion.
be rented but
'banding
a
that
urging
months ago since we wrote
no progress has been made.
Many of us would like our children to have technical
training but technical subjects are not taught at Milton.
'We can't send our hys away as board is unprocurable in
Sydney, Viollongong and Nowra. We would like to know why nearly
every schoolroom Eden to Wollongong has Manual Training Classes
for boys and home science for girls and there are no classes
here. With the exception of Bega and howra, Milton is the
biggest school on the South Coast and we feel that visiting
Manual Training and Home Science teachers should be appciinted
in the new year.