PROPOSED EDENDALE SCHOOL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 42, 18 February 1908, Page 4

PROPOSED EDENDALE SCHOOL.

■ - - . ... - ..•■. ■ - ■ ■ :"-s*;';;^:.' On Monday evening, : Tebraavy 17ta, » well-attended meeting'of. householders nvterested in the erection ot a scnool '.-at,,, Edendale, convened by the Rev. A. Miller, 31-A., was Held in the Edendale Ptesby- ■ • terian Church. The Rev. Miller occupied the chair, .and opened the meeting v iby speaking of thV(pressing;;nced of * ■ school for the district. He referred to ..which Jie, in -conjunction, with, the other ministers concerned, had taken >. ; !to meet the need.■:■ -J&J* iesult of these efforts the Auckland Board of Education .had selected a -suitable sitej«nd*erh*d been informed thata grantfor thebuild:ing was.on the estimates." As there seemed to be some delay in the matter, it had been.-thought weU to call .this'ineev, ing, with the object oi pushing on the project. The following resolutions .were-v) passed unanimously: — (J) " That this meeting of residents of Edendale district would urge upon the Board of Education (Auckland), the necessity of taking jmnie-: diate steps to secure a school site lor Edendale, and of so pushing on the .mat-; : ter that the school may be erected and. ready for occupation immediately after the "mid-winter holidays of-1908." (2) " That this meeting Trpuldiuxge .upon the Minieter for Education the necessity of making immediately a sufficient Vgrant towards the erection of. a new Public School at Edendale." (3) "That a copy;, of the foregoing resolutions be forwarded? xo the member for the district, Mr. J. ■ Bollard, with the request that he would continue, to .use .his influence in .pushing on .the matter:" '- ■■',;■. \ \ the Revs. Mffler, Wingfield and Jur- _ wood, with the following gentlemen, were elected as a committee jh»--ject moving:—Messrs. T. Dick, CtaTie, Bryden, BiackweU, Array, StoicnMV Harris, Ccmrteaay aad Powefl. i '-, ■. '.'V ' i '-:' : !'-fei^