EDUCATION BOARD TO VISIT COAST

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29194, 3 May 1960, Page 17

EDUCATION BOARD TO VISIT COAST

Meeting To Be Held In Creymouth

As a gesture to mark the centennial of the Westland Province, the Canterbury Education Board will hold its next monthly meeting in Greymouth on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. May 18, 19 and 20. This will be the first time in the history of the board that it has met anywhere other than in Christchurch. The board’s decision is also a gesture of appreciation of the co-operation and goodwill which has existed between West Coast schools and other organisations and the board since the Grey and Westland boards .amalgamated with the Canterbury boards in 1916—44 years ago. In addition to conducting the usual business in the sessions at Greymouth, the board has also arranged for a conversazione to be held at the Grey Main school’s assembly hall on the Thursday evening. This has been organised to allow members to meet representatives of. as many school committees and oth r organisations as possible. About 180 persons are expected to attend the conversazione in addition to school committee chairmen, district borough and county representatives have been invited, ' Former West Coast board members, New Zealand Educational Institute representatives, board employees, head teachers of all schools on the West Coast with a staff of four, and Child Welfare and religious representatives. The board, which comprise? some 15 members, will use the staff room at the Greymouth Technical High School for its meeting.