Page 4816 - Week 16 - Thursday, 29 November 1990
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MR DUBY: As I advised in my answer to Mr Stevenson yesterday, in matters like this the contractor is required to affix lamps to any structures across a public road to block them off for roadworks, et cetera. It was my understanding that the matter was being inspected by officers from my department and at last report they were satisfied that lamps were being affixed. It must be remembered, of course, that things like this are often attractive to vandals and people who like to souvenir things like roadwork lamps.
Mr Stevenson: They have not been souvenired; they have not been there.
MR DUBY: I shall again look into the matter for Mr Stevenson and ensure that the law, which is the law that these fixtures have lamps affixed to them, is adhered to. In relation to people who have run into them and who may wish to claim damages, it would appear to me that that would be a matter that they would need to take up with the contractor. Clearly, if those lamps are not being affixed, he is not meeting the terms of his tender documents.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, when addressing the Ministers at question time please address them by their appropriate titles instead of those that you frivolously make up. I dread what you will come up with next.
Cook Primary School Board
MR STEFANIAK: My question is to the Minister for Education. Mr Humphries, what is the current position of Cook Primary School Board after a decision by the teaching staff to withdraw from all further board meetings for the remainder of the year? Is it correct that Cook Primary School teaching staff have withdrawn from all further meetings of the Cook Primary School Board?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I thank Mr Stefaniak for his question. Yes, it is true that the two teachers who have served on the board of Cook Primary School have withdrawn from that board. Prior to the receipt of the Hudson report and the Government's decision on 20 November to close the Cook Primary School by the end of the year, the staff at Cook Primary School, I think it is true to say, were very supportive of the Cook community's struggle to keep its school open. Once the decision was made, however, the staff at the school accepted the decision. I do not pretend that they welcomed it, but they certainly accepted it and they proceeded to support the ministry in implementing the transition arrangements. Teachers who were finding it difficult to carry out their school closure transition duties felt compelled, due to lack of time, to withdraw from school board activities. Furthermore, the entire staff at Cook Primary School respected that decision and, in fact, I am advised - - -
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