Increase In Schools’ Grant
“This is very gratifying and is an increase of £3500 on the grant for the previous year,” said Mr W. Cuthbertson, deputy-chairman of the Hawke s Bay Education Board, at the monthly meeting in Napier yesterday when it was revealed that the department had approved a grant of £16,280 for maintenance of school buildings and teachers’ residences for the financial year ending March 31, 1948. A grant of £1648 was also approved for the purchase of reference books and readers in history and geography for pupils in Standards 3-4 and Forms I and 11. More and Heavier Lambs Outstanding among the lines of lambs killed at the Gisborne Refrigerating Company’s works at Kaiti his week was a draft of 241 from the Whatatutu district, all prime and averaging 41.351 b. The best of the other kills were:—Patutahi district: 936 lambs, 38 seconds, 34.341 b average; 104, 1, 38.65; 274, 11, 36.23; 780. 18, 34.56; 472, 15, 33.15. Manutuke: 277 lambs, 1 second, 38.271 b average; 614, 74, 35.12. Ormond-Waipaoa: 196. all prime, 38.36; 124, 4 seconds, ' 34.491 b average; Waimata: 358, 36, 35.60; Hexton: 506, 1, 36.38. The coming week also is expected to be a busy one for the works. The works will be finishing killing on December 23 and will resume on January 6.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22510, 13 December 1947, Page 6
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