With regard to playground accommodation, it is stated that none {is available on the ground where the huts stand, and that facilities elsewhere are required. In reply to questions, the Acting Headmistress of the Public School for Girls states that the provision of a playground for the junior boys in the girls' compound would encroach on the existing hockey field and tennis courts which serve some 400 chil. dren; that football would probably be detrimental to the ground; and that any rearrangement of school hours to enable the boys to play' games in the girl' playground would result in interference with the conduct of the girls' cla The Headmaster of the Public School for Boys suggests that Jessfield Park might be used for the boys' games, while the Chairman (Mfr. J.-S. 8. Cooper) consi that the use of the military parade ground north of the Girls' School] should be obtained if possible.
After discussion, it is recommended that, as a strictly tempora ary expedient, accommodation—be provided for' the boys in the the Girls' School, and
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