HIGH SCHOOL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 12914, 16 July 1936, Page 7

HIGH SCHOOL

BOARD OF GOVERNORS Tho monthly meeting of t-h-e High School Board of Governors was held yesterday. Present: Mr T. Todd (in the chair). Dr. A. L. Singer, and Messrs L. T. Barnard. J. H. Sunderland, IT. E. Bright, E. H. Baker, H. H. De Costa, and the rector. Air J. Hutlon. Accounts .amounting to £213 10s 4d were passed for payment. TJic report of the visiting committee. Dr. Singer, and Messrs Nolan, Todd, and DeCosta recommended. Infer alia: The planting of further frees or a. hedge along the cricketground and suggesting that Ihc matter he left in the hands of Dr. Singer and Mr Maunder; and that an estimate: be obtained and a grant applied for asphalting- the school yard. Miss McCarthy bad takc-n over conirol of Ay lon House.— The report was adopted. RECTOR’S REPORT Tlie rector’s report: stated inter alia: The High School staff is: now complete since Mr R. H. Cook. MI.A., and Mr G. 11. Thorp, Agr. Sc., the agricultural instructor, joined at the beginning of July. The school roil is now 501. The annual football match with Napier takes place cn July IS and with. Hastings on July 20. The Department’s inspectors will visit Ihc school on July 20 in connection with free place- and higher leaving certificate assessments. Evening classes tare- now conducted in dressmaking woodwork, show-card writing. «(:o thand, advanced bookkeeping. English and-arithmetic, mercantile law, economies,- mechanical drawing, invalid cookery, senior and junior bookkeeping. motor engineering, typewriting, electrical wiring, applied mechanics, plumbing (theory and practice). drawing and art, and wool classing. The enrolments totalled 311 and the number of individual students was 183.—The report was adopted.