HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 939, 5 October 1910, Page 5

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

j:CQ ■' ivV : ''''■'■:■■■ ■': ■■ '■'' ■ i r' '• v/f;' ■ \manageijs:;' v;v' ; ':V;';V : '; ; ■■'•' }: {From;' Our; ; Speqial Correspondent.).;: -i~.. . :: ;A , ';riieetitig / '6f .the. "managers. of ! : 'th'6 •Petohe;. Technical-. School • was held last evening, .whoiv.?there; were present':the ? Rev.';'• ki : Thomson : (chairman), and ■Messrs.' "<>. Duncan/ '.'■'Truemani'' : '.Jones,' •Castle/,M'Ewarij'/Findlay;:'and M'Ken-•'zie'i-X';■-.'••■''■ ;!■■"■ ;'■ .:.0;/' ! i •;■•'■':"';'■■ i::i;Mr'..:M'Kenizie::'moyedi in : accordance ■with'notice':' "That no'entrance fees .be 1 .chargedi'.to'junior.: and',senior free-place pupils ;attending v'the -Petone' Technical School, ■ anii' v that,''f.in v lieu 'thereof, par,ents'sign a'guaranteerform, undertaking -the :regular;;atteridance ; of.pupilsiat the school, ahdj'in'the event of their failing ;' tp;!,earn capitation.■,allowance,':, (except. ; on]yi:pn.'accouh't;of. 'sickness.or.removal' from'. the 'district)/, tie; 'parents , iinder;take to pa'y.;'theiees'.' to ..the'hoard.''.;.'..;

M'Keri-' zid said'-tHatyif'the. school were'oneifor, proficiericy scholars,. why/charge -an'.'.entrance fee?/, .. He;adypcated fuririirig the Petorie'School.on''./tlie same 'liriesZas tho ■ Wellington Technical' School.': ~// ,/ : Tho motion' was carried.',';..";•■'■'"■.-''■';■,;■"'-'. '

:..ly;^e : Diroctor'(MrV;Ji : ''LynSk'eyy'reoo,mV ■mended that 'a sub-c6mmittco:b'e: set up. . to : go. into ;the Question' of. revising the syllabu's,|'ai4\alsq.,to; deal;,with ■'certain, other■'; matters,:, which-he;, (the'directpr) would ibring. before them'.' l - -.'.. The recomrmendatibii,was'.adppted,: and the Rev- A. ; Thomson, .arid .-Messrs.;''J. •G. /'; Castle : ( and;D.M'Kenzie.;werei appointed a'Bub.committee, as aiked,. ~/■•.;'. ';.„;..;^: ; '•■■/,; '-.■<'■

• /:The'ayera'ge:Zattendarice;of':pupiis!Was igiveii-Zas; 231—an',increase"of :30 on "the, inuriiber;/last'quarteri;'ZZZ:' 1 .-■