SCHOOL AT TURUTURU.
EDUCATION BOARD FAVOURABLE At the meeting of the Taranaki Education Board yesterday an application was received from the householders of Turaturu asking that asohool be grant, ed for that district. The letter emceeing the application pointed out that there we.e 119 families residing in the district and in the neighbourhood of the proposed school. There were some 278 children living there and of these 159 were going to other schools. The proposed site was 2£ miles from the Hawera school and 2jinnies from Normanby school. The members of the Board were all agreeab.e to the proposal. It was com sidered advisable instead of having one big school in Hawera and two small ones, it would be better to have three medium sized ones. It was left to Messrs A. Lees, H. J. Eaves and H. Dempsey and the senior inspector to visit the proposed site and report on the 'advisability of establishing the school
The proposed site, which is on. the corner of Glover and Waihi Roads, is an Education reserve at present leased, the lease expiring in six years’, time. It would therefore be necessary to open negotiations with the Crown Lands Department.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 August 1925, Page 4
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197SCHOOL AT TURUTURU. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 August 1925, Page 4
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