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Press, Volume L, Issue 14909, 6 March 1914, Page 9

stage being cut short by the unexpected rain.

HIGH SCHOOL FUNDS-

DEPUTATION" TO THE MINISTER

A deputation from the Akaroa High School Board, consisting of Messrs JD. Bruce (chairman), Geo. Armstrong, and G. W. Thomas (secretary)" waited on the Minister relative to the allocation of certain accrued funds from tho High School endowment. It was explained that at present the High School pupils, about 23 in number, were accommodated in the Technical School building. Thero was no High School in the Bays, and the endowment was not sufficient to establish one. The High School Board had guaranteed somo assistance to tho District High School, but what was proposed now was to apply the accumulated income for the last seven or eight years, some £•500. to the building of an addition to the District High School to be used as a secondary department. not in any way interfere with tho endowment, and it would still remain intact.

Mr Allen, in reply, said thafc the matter had already come before him. What he was advised then was that the money would be used "by way of scholarships to enable Akaroa pupils to attend secondary sc'iooia elsewhere. The Akaroa Board, however, did not think that now an advisable course to follow. He was now informed that thero was very little prospect for many years to come that a High School wculd be required in Akaroa. He would, therefore, go into the matter again when he returned to Wellington, and sco whether he could fall in with the wishes of the deputation. If it were possible, he would, but the Department could not break the trust. At the close of the ceremony the Minister returned to Christchurch by motor.

On the way over from Little River the members of the Board inspected the Robinson's Bay school, and the German Bay school, at each of which improvements are required, particularly in the way of giving better housing accommodation to teachers. There is a proposal afoot that the two small schools should be closed, and that a new and large school should be erected midway between the two bays, to serve the residents in each.