TECHNICAL SCHOOL LAUNDRY QUESTION AGAIN DISCUSSED

Grey River Argus, 3 May 1949, Page 3

TECHNICAL SCHOOL LAUNDRY QUESTION AGAIN DISCUSSED

Air F. L. Turley aroused some interest in last evening’s meeting of the Greymouth Technical High School Board of Governors when he asked the chairman (Mr D. S. Kennedy) what right the Board had to increase the laundry charge when at a previous meeting a fixed price was drawn up. The chairman replied that further investigations had been made. Mr Turley: “By whom? It must have been just talk among yourselves. The whole thing is a farce”. Mr S. Gladstone: “The only investigations made were two accounts examined at the meeting”. He (the speaker) had asked for further investigations, but by a vote of five to four at last meeting the cost was raised tot £4 a term, or £l2' a year for each pupil. Mr Turley: ‘I don’t think the motion is in order, and I want to know if it is”. After Mr Mitchell (Acting Principal) had read the motion from the minutes of the previous meeting, a second time, Mr Turley was assured everything was in order. The chairman: “The two boys in question have since made their own arrangements regarding their laundry”. Mr Kent: “We have to keep matters on a line”. Mr Mitchell: “Mrs Stewart said that she had acted as an agent for the local laundry”. Air Gladstone: “It is our duty to make suitable arrangements for the pupils’ laundry. Nobody has ever asked the matron of the hostel to pay the laundry charge”. Air Turley: “What arrangements have been made?” The chairman replied that the pupils had made their own arrangements, which were stated to be satisfactory. The Tech Old Boys’ Football Club, on the motion of Air Kent, were granted the use of the old engineering workshop block for a training shed on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 7 and 8 p.m. Mr Turley was instructed to get a ruling from the Canterbury Education Board as to whose jurisdiction the manual training centre comes under. The Education Department wrote re school attendance, and stated that all children between the ages of seven and sixteen years, under penalty to their parents, were bound to be registered at a school, it was pointed out that several teachers had had occasion to report parents for the irregular attendance of their children. Mr C. Dewar was appointed groundsman to help Air Newcombe, the caretaker. It was stated that no applications had been received for the position, which was widely advertised. Messrs Turley and Henry were appointed a visiting committee for the month.