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Girls' Department.
Classrooms.—The artificial lighting has been slightly improved
but is still unsatisfactory throughout the school. Electric lighting should
be installed. In room 3 the skylights should be made to open. In
room 3 and in the "middle classroom the natural lighting comes mainly
from the back of the room. The partition screens provided in this
school do not reach the floor, causing the rooms thus divided to be
very draughty. In room 6 there is a dark dado.
Desks.—A large number of the old type of desks are in use
and should be replaced by dual or single desks.
The flooring in the passages and several classrooms is irregular
and requires planing and repairing.
Infants' Department
The walls throughout the school have a dark dado thus interfering
with the natural lighting.
Desks.—Many old-fashioned desks are in use and some of these
are too small for the children using them.
Heating.—In room 5 the heating is inadequate and an extra
radiator is required.
Cloak Rooms.—These are still without means for drying the
children's clothes. The pegs have been so altered as to enable the
children to reach them without difficulty.
In rooms 5 and 8, two additional windows have in each case been
constructed in the back wall. These have greatly improved the lighting
of the rooms and have provided efficient cross-ventilation.
Lavatories.— Structural repairs have been effected including repair
of broken panes in glass roof. The lavatories are cleaner but have
not been whitewashed. This is urgently needed. No flush is provided
for the urinals.
Culvert Road School.
This school requires redecorating throughout, the walls of classrooms.
hall and corridors being now very dirty.
St. Ann's School.—Boys' Department (Non-Provided).
Classrooms.—These have a dark dado throughout the school. At
the front of the school premises the hedge has been cut but is still too
high and obscures the windows. The windows of room 3 are old-