A GENEROUS GIFT
FOR SCHOOL AT TAHAKOPA. This morning the Otago Education Board received the following letter from Dr Truby King and Mr Wm. M'Laehlan:— We are so deeply impressed that the urgent need for providing immediately a suitable school and school grounds for Tahakopa district that we undertake on behalf of ourselves and the community to present an area of five acres offered at £2OO by Mr M'Laehlan, this being by far the most suitable land that can be procured, and an ideal property for the purpose. There will be 100 children attending the Tahakopa School early in the new year, and there is every prospect of 150* by the end of the year.
The board decided to thank Messrs King M'Laehlan, and to make application to the Education Department for authority to shift to the new site, and enlarge the school at the earliest possible moment. The site, which has been so generouslv given, was_ inspected by a committee of the board in March of this year, when it was decided it was the most suitable place for the school.
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Evening Star, Issue 17489, 21 October 1920, Page 4
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182A GENEROUS GIFT Evening Star, Issue 17489, 21 October 1920, Page 4
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