MT. PLEASANT BURGESSES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19151, 7 November 1927, Page 7

MT. PLEASANT BURGESSES.

- . . MEETING OF ASSOCIATION. . A meeting of the Mount Pleasant Burgesses' Association was held, on Saturday evening, Mr W. K. Webb presiding over an attendance of thirty members. - The chairman said that the residents should feel grateful to the Tramway Board for the vast improvement in the tram slop at the toot of the hill. It was intended to put in a short-cut from the hill road to tho main road at the end of the trees. . * The danger of ftie existing loop was discussed, but it was decided that owing to the cost of removal being somewhat high it would not be reasonable to ask the Tramway Board to carry out the work at present. The main business of the evening was to send forward to the Education Board recommendations as to the type of school to be erected on Mount ■ Pleasant. The chairman explained that the reason for the question being brought before the meeting was that, at an address given by the Open-air School League, resolutions had been passed which had not been passed on to the Education Board. Unfortunately, the Board was under the misapprehension that the residents approved of the Temuka plan type of school and had gone on with the work. However, the Board had now agreed to hold up the work until an expression of opinion had been obtained from the residents. Mr F. H. D. Gale said that the whole trouble was that no official plans had been submitted by the Board and had not been considered by the general. The Board's facts were incorrect, and the person who was responsible for informing the Board was quite wrong. Mr Webb:. My name is implicated in this question, but I have never at any thne spoken to any member of the Board voicing my approval of the Temuka plan. < Mr A. -Williams said that he felt sure that everybody had seen the plans at the last meeting, and he was under the impression that the president and vice-president had agreed to them. Mr B. Eiley said that he was the Board s representative, and as such he bad certainly thought that the executive was favourable to a school being built on the Temuka plan. The chairman introduced Drs. Bevan-Brown and J. Restall Thomas, who were present to address the meeting in support of the Fendalton type of open-air school. Dr. Bevan-Brown said that he was a member of the Open-air Schools' League, and he wanted to show why this type of school was preferable to. any other. Health was more important than education, and the old type of school, with no sun or proper ventilation, was not in the best interests of the child. Dr. J. E. Thomas said that he could only endorse all that tho previous speaker had said. Mr Owen moved that the same type of building as that at Fcndalton, with the latest improvements, be erected, and this was carried by sixteen votes to eleven. A hearty vote of thanks was accordea Drs. Thomas and Bevan-Brown.