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During 1929 the following repairs have been carried
out:—
Bonner Hill Road School.
Richmond Road School.
All Saints' Infant School.
At the above schools only small decorations to certain
rooms were carried out, and the lavatories thoroughly
cleansed and redecorated.
St John's School
The roof was stripped, retiled and the guttering overhauled.
The old steeple was removed. The whole School
was re-drained; pedestal W.C. pans were fixed throughout.
New heating stoves were fixed, and a Teachers' Room was
provided, with separate sanitary accommodation. The
old lavatory basins inside the building were abolished.
A new verandah was erected at the rear of the School,
and several board and glass partitions were fixed.
St. Peter's School
A small entrance lobby, and a new doorway were made.
Six new W.C. pans for children, and a lavatory and
W.C. adjoining the Teachers' Room.
Personal Hygiene—Rubber Boots.
Quite a number of School children nowadays wear
Wellington rubber boots to School. The practice, no doubt,
has an advantage in that it prevents the children getting
their feet wet on their way to School, but it should be remembered
that these rubber boots do not allow proper ventilation,
with the result that moisture condenses inside, rendering
their feet damp and very cold when tne children are in class
Again, so many of these children wear rubber boots
when the weather is fine and dry, which is very inadvisable.
In my opinion these boots are very bad for constant
wear, and I recommend that all children should have a pair
of leather slippers or shoes at School into which they should
change on arrival. I hope that teachers will aid by advising
parents to provide a change of shoes for their children,