FREE KINDERGARTENS

Evening Star, Issue 23497, 10 February 1940, Page 8

FREE KINDERGARTENS

MEETING OF COUNCIL The first meeting for 1940 of the Dunedin Free Kindergarten Council •was held on Thursday atteruoon, when Mrs K. A. Ewing presided, the following being present:—-Lady Sidey, Cady Hutchison, iViesdaines Bukhara, Dykes, Cameron, Gallaway. Garrett, Glendining, Greig, Haggitt, ft. Halsted, F. v Halsted, Hanau, Harty. Melville, Moody, Sim, Smith, Taverner, and .Wright, Misses Allen, Kelsey, Scott, and Ulrich. Mrs Ewing welcomed the members back from the holiday session, and hoped the large attendance was a good augury lor a successful year’s work. A temporary committee consisting of Mesdames Glendining (chairwoman), Smith, Cameron, Halsted, and Jenkins and MisS Calder (secretary) was appointed to act as the local committee at the Kaikordi Free Kindergarten. It was reported that permission had been received in January to go on ■with the alterations at, the KclseyYaralla Kindergarten. As the contracstor could not complete these before last Tuesday, it had been necessary to postpone the opening of this kindergarten until next Monday. All the other kindergartens had been reopened last Tuesday with good attendances and rapidly-tilling registers. At the I?. S. 1 eyuolds Kindergarten there were i >w 60 children on the roll and 30 names on the waiting list. The committee reported that a good deal of wanton destruction had been done at two of the kindergartens, broken tiles, broken windows, a broken sun dial. and uprooted trees • being found when the staff returned to duty. The council would be grateful for anv information from the public that might lead to the suppression of such thoughtless actions. The annual balance sheet was passed for presentation at the annual meeting in May.