HILLMORTON H.S. LIBRARY
Board Seeks £lOOO Grant The Hillmorton High School board of governors will ask the Education Department to consider urgently making a grant of £lOOO to the school library, it was agreed at a meeting of the board last evening. The report of the Education Commission recommended that a grant of £lOOO should be available to new schools over the first three years to enable them to stock their library shelves, said the headmaster (Mr O. W. G. Lewis) in his report to the board. With the parent-teacher association grant of £5OO per annum and the initial set-ting-up grant of £3OO, the library now had about 2250 books. With the growth of the school to sixth-form level next year, the need for a still wider range of reference material would be more urgent, and books for senior use were invariably expensive, said Mr Lewis. It would be clear from the figures he had given that even £lOOO was far from adequate assistance to the most vital department in any school, he said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30125, 8 May 1963, Page 22
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