HUTT HIGH SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 41, 12 November 1937, Page 6

HUTT HIGH SCHOOL

Board Of Governors’ Meeting

The monthly meeting of .the Hutt Valley High School board of governors was held last night, the chairman, Mr. J. Slonehouse, presiding. A letter was received from the Education Department refusing permission to the board to devote money from the endowment fund to the servicing of windows in the school buildings. The board desired to arrange with a private firm to have the windows serviced regularly, but the department stated that it could not agree to this, although it would be possible foy men from the Public Works Department or the Education Department to carry out an inspection of the windows. “I think they are making a mistake, said Mr. W. V. Dyer. “There will be an increasing amount of maintenance work oil the windows.” It was not only an inspection that was required, he said; the windows required servicing to keep them in ordjy. A letter was received asking for the school’s co-operation in the learn-to-swim week which is to be held throughout the country next month. The principal, Mr. J. N. Millard, said that during the summer months, the children were usually taken to the baths for swimming instruction, although this had not been possible at the beginning of this year because of the infantile paralysis epidemic. It was proposed that the children be allowed to visit the baths during the next few weeks while the senior pupils were sitting for examinations. The chairman said everything the board could do to assist the effort would be done. The question of the provision of .a small room at the end of the main school corridor for tl’e storing of the dramatic club’s property was left to the works committee to inquire into. A request from the school staff for permission to hold the annual barracks during the first week of school next year was granted. Mr. Dyer said the idea ■was to give special instruction to the boys and girls in physical training and other similar subjects. Permission was granted for the topping of trees along the college boundary as the result of a request from Mrs. Riddiford. A letter of thanks is to be sent to Mr. D. Robertson, Raroa Road, for a gift of £2 to the school fund. The principal said the money had been devoted to the purchase of travel books for the school library.