BOROUGH SCHOOL

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 4 February 1938, Page 8

BOROUGH SCHOOL

MEETING OF ASHBURTON COMMITTEE REQUEST FOR INSPECTION OF HEADMASTER'S RESIDENCE A request is to be made to the Canterbury Education Board for an infection to be made of the headmaster s residence at the Ashburton Borough School with a view to rebuilding, following on "presentations made by the headmaster (Mr M J. r-pith) at a meeting ot tne scnuui committee on Wednesday, evening. Thprp were present: Dr. J. Connor KfrmlnT Messrs N Milne, W H. ciarnev W K. Waters, W. G. Welsh, L. W Christmas. N. L. F. Wood, and A of the grounds had been completed and they were in good order when school resumed the headmaster's report slated and the school buildings were scrupuously clean, the floors having been oUed during the V3 The headmaster requested a small frame for growing seedlings in the gardens, as this would increase the valufof the work done, and would enable the school to raise some of its reDly to a letter from the secretary of the committee, the Canterbury Education Board wrote that the school would receive attention in its turn, on the programme of improvement to school grounds, which was being carried out by the Public Works Departm Advice that instruction had been issued for a safety barrier to be erected outside the school gates was received from the Canterbury Education Board which also advised that authority had been given for a number of renovations. , . ~ In response to an appeal from the board to subsidise its grant of £SOO by an equal amount to foster the travelling library movement, it was decided that the headmaster make further inquiries about the scheme. The roll number at the opening of the Ashburton Borough School this year was 406, reported the headmaster. The number in December was 438. New entrants numbered 41, including 19 from Pendarves, and 73 were known to have left. PERSONAL NOTES ASHBURTON Addresses were given by Messrs E. Hamilton and I* G. K. Steven, of the Christchurch Rotary Club, at the first weekly luncheon for 1938 of the Ashburton Rotary Club held yesterday. Mr V. W. Russell has returned to Ashburton after a visit to Sydney and Melbourne.