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 In January 1913 Moffitt requested that two unfenced sides of the school site be fenced as, ‘At any time about ten draught horses, used in the cane season, are running in the paddock, which surrounds the school and are always an annoyance. When I came to open the school on Monday morning the verandah was like a stable. During the wet weather, in the holidays, the horses had been on the verandah for protection and so the same on any wet night. Apart from this, it is necessary that the paddock be fenced as pupils at a distance cannot ride to school because there is no place to put the horse during school hours.’1
 A year later the Department had still not approved having the fencing done and Moffitt requested it again, writing that, ‘As it is, the place is of no use to the school, or the children as a play ground, or a paddock to put horses in, when riding to school. This interferes with the attendance in rough weather. Further, at times, the School site has from twenty to fifty cattle running on it, and this makes matters dangerous for children at play, ‘As the site is high, both, cattle and horses, commonly, camp on it as, it is warmer and drier that [sic ] the flats below.’1
The fencing was then done by Mr Gillieatt for £11.19.0 and had been completed by August 1914.1 |
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