SCHOOL’S WATER SUPPLY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 284, 16 November 1923, Page 4

SCHOOL’S WATER SUPPLY.

COMMITTEE AND EDUCATION BOARD.

“The Board’s action in making arrangements over the head of the committee in regard to water supply calls for a vigorous protest, and we intend to resist the imposition by all means in our power.”

This is the strain in which the Hastings Street (Napier) School Committee wrote to yesterday’s meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board regarding the recent arrangement made between the Board and the Borough Council for the supply of water at a nominal cost to schools in Napier. The objection of the Committee is, however, that before this recent agree ment was made, it had an agreement with the Borough Council for free water.

When the matter came up yesterday., it was decided to ask the Committee to approach the Borough Council itself and ask it to stand by tht. old agreement. Another proposal by Mr. J. C. Thomson—that the Board ask the Council to exempt the- Hastings Street School from the recent agreement—was not supported. “It is not the duty of this Board to help in -breaking up the agreement between tho two other parties,’’ said Mr. G. McKay. M.P. “The Borough Council is trying to repudiate its agreement, anti an injustice is being done to the Committee.” The secretary (Mr W. L. Dunn) said that by tho agreement-with the Board, the Committee would lose about £5 a year, and the other committees would gain about £l2 each. Air. A. W. Hamilton: Why can’t tho Board pay that £5 for the Committee and save all this bother?