SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 96, 24 April 1926, Page 14

SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

REVIEW OP PAST YEAR. REMUERA DISTRICT. At the close of last year the district served by .the Cornwall Park school was cut off from the Remuera district. Religious instruction given to the children out of school hours has been carried out by the Rev. G. C. Cruickshank, vicar of St. Mark's, since the Rev. J. Wilkinson left New Zealand in June last. As a result of representations made early in the year by the committee regarding overcrowding in certain classrooms, the Education Board, in .July last, erected a temporary building '"of itwo classrooms behind the main school, which are still in use. The average roll number was 726, and. the average attendance 676 for the year. Three pupils gained junior national scholarships. The receipts during the year totalled £423 4/2, and the expenditure £357 10/3, leaving a credit balance of £35 13/11. MEADOWBAJNTK DISTRICT. The school roll now numbers 380, and 1 the average attendance for the past year was 332. .During the year a temporary iron building was erected to relieve the overcrowded- condition of the school. The committee has persistently applied for additional ground for an infant school, and is prepared to guarantee £100 towards purchasing it. Owing to the generosity of a few friends, tne children were supplied with hot cocoa during the winter months free of charge. The school again gained a certificate of merit for gardening. The treasurer's report shows a credit balance of £17 8/6. NEWTON- DISTRICT. The roll number of the three schools is at present 1535, which is 240 less than two years ago. This is due 'to the roll number at Xewton East falling rapidly. This school will be closed as soon as additional rooms are erected at Newton Central. Xewton West.—This school won the Association football competition for 1925 without suffering a defeat. One pupil gained ' a junior national scholarship. A bazaar •was held last December, with the proceeds ] of which it is intended to purchase a piano. Newton East.—Mr. Hook severed his connection with the school as headmaster at the end of last month to take up the position of headmaster of the Brixton Road school. Before leaving he was presented with an illuminated address by the committee and a dinner and tea service by the staff and pupils of the school. A concert, held in ■ August, raised sufficient funds' for the purchase of a piano and a gramophone. Newton Central.—The top portion of the school grounds has now been levelled. The committee protested against the Education Board's proposal to convert the school into a junior high school on the grounds that it was the only school in the district with suitable playing area for small children. The protest was upheld. The financial report shows a credit balance of £S5 14/1. NEW LYNN DISTRICT. The roll number has increased frmo 532 to- 590. thus causing every classroom to be overcrowded. The treasurer's report shows a credit balance of £37 13/. The balance of a grant of £100 for providing playing grounds was expended round the new infant school. Special teaching appliances, including a piano, were provided by voluntary contributions, and with the balance of the money subscribed a merry-go-round was erected. AVONDALE DISTRICT. The roll number .has increased from 640 'to"700, causing considerable overcrowding, especially In the infant department. Two extra rooms have been erected, each capable' of holding 50 pupils. Regret is expressed at the retirement of Miss Newton, who for over 20 years was infant mistress. One boy gained a junior national scholarship, and two others Bollard Memorial scholarShips. The receipts during the year amounted to £400 5/3, and the expenditure £308 9/10, leaving a credit balance of £191 15/5.. AUCKLAND CITT DISTRICT. The'total income of the committee for the year was £606 16-/6: The total expenditure was .£O2O 5/10. The sum of £40 was allotted for providing free stationery foj. the children. The attendance at the schools has been very good, but there has been a heavy falling off of the roll numbers. The distribution of cocoa was last winter extended to Beresford Street, as well as Napier • Street school, and this year It is hoped to. include- Nelson Street school- as I well. A new school has been secured for Napier Street, and in a few months will be in use. CORNWALL PARK DISTRICT., This is the first year that the Cornwall Park school has had a separate committee, being previously under the Remuera District School Committee. The Department has. given special praise to the school for its- experimental garden plots. The Governor-General and Lady Alice Fergusson visited the school in the course of the year, and presented it with the Anzac Banner it had won. Additional land has been purchased as the site for the infant school. BIRKENHEAD DISTRICT. This> is .-the first year that Birkenhead has existed as a separate district from Northcote. The receipts totalled £214 16/5, and the expenditure £170 17/, leaving a credit balance -of ££43 19/5. In the course of the year the Education Board subject to the approval of the Department, agreed to appoint a headmaster for the Birkenhead school, separate from the Northcote schools Iho children were supplied with cocoa for three weeks during the coldest oart of the winter. A number of improvements have been carried out in the school grounds

ONEHUXGA. The annual report of the Onehunga Schools Committee, to be presented to the meeting of householders next Monday night, in the Orphans' Hall, states that o4 pupils attended the proficiency exams during the year, and all passed. The Buchanan prize of £5 had been won by Miss Sutherland, of the Onehunga school A new piano, costing £66, had been purchased from the proceeds of a Paddy's Market, and subsidised £ for £ by the Education Board. In addition to the board's grant of £40, the committee had spent over £50 in improving the school grounds. The board had recently completed the asphalting .of almost the whole of"the level area of the school grounds. The last Paddy's Market promoted by the teaching staff at Onehunga resulted in a profit of £90. All the meetings of the committee had been well attended, and the year closed with a credit balance At the Te Papapa school the sum of S2B .3/ had been spent on the grounds. £1S on furnishing rooms, and £30 on the school library. The Education Board had also tarfed all the level ground at this school. The district has now been divided and a separate committee will be appointed for each. school next Monday night. A meeting of householders will be held at Te Papapa for the election of a local committee.

TAKAPUNA DISTRICT. The school was successful in gaining two junior national scholarships The newly-acquired playing area of about two acres has been laid down in grass and the basketball grounds have been crowned and asphalted. A new school has been erected at Milford, and it is hoped to open this after the Slay holidays. The Education Department have determined that for some time the school will take children up to and including .Standard IV Two tanks for rain water have been erected, and these will be connected with buble fountains. In cricket about 150 boys played organised cricket every day, the juniors having; no losses in the competition

ADDITIONAL NOMINATIONS. Morrinsville.—Only eight nominations have , been received for the nine seats They are: Mesdames P. J. Marshall S H Cornish, Messrs. B. McGregor, R. C Gray" G. Irvine. ,T. B. Thomas, W. Johnstone and J. H. Gaddes. Whakatane.—Only eight ' nominations were received. The names are as follows • Messrs. A. G. Clarke. R. W. Price. H -It". Robinson. C. L. Beamish, W. E. Brideer A.. S. Warner, R. W. Schofield, G. S. Bullen. Te Puke.—The following were returned unopposed : —Messrs. F. T. Danners N G Cottrell, R. Urquhart. F. Palmer 'h" g' Butcher. S. P. Ryan, A. C. Maunder, j c' Bates, Rev. R. Warnock. ' Mount Roskill.—Eleven nominations have been received for the nine seats on the Mt Koskill School Committee: Messrs H s' Anderson.-A. S. Sullen, W. H. Thompson; R. D. Kelsey. h. Leahy, J. Patterson W nnicer, W. Stanton, A. Warren W P* White, Rev. F. J. Murray. ' '