SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 167, 20 June 1925, Page 3

SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Decisions of the Finance Committee in regard to school committee correspondence were endorsed as follow • Ruakawa: An application will be niadp. to the Department for a grant toward* extension of the school and failing the Department providing a shelter shed the board will erect one.

Clive: A grant of £5 for a bicycle shed was approved. Nelson Park: Improvements in class rooms were approved, but no action was taken by the board regarding improvements to the hack porch used for Standard IV. B.

Wairoa: An application for a brick destructor was not. entertained.

GENERAL

A. special committee consisting of the chairman, the Middle Ward and the Napier members reported that as a separate school will sooner or later be required at Bay View, a sit* for a side school should be acquired now and a school ot one room for .younger children be established provided the Department made a grant. The Petane School Committee election was declared nu’l ami void nnd another election will be held on July

The secretary reported that the case of Davis and Page’s claim for fees m respect of the Hastings Technical High School had been adjourned for hearing at Wellington and that Mr Myers. K.C. had h»<»>n retained as counsel for the hoard.

The Napier Harbour Board asked the board to put aside the question of the early negotiations and bo good enough to settle as early as possible the pay ment of £2OOO for the acqusition of the site. It was stated that if more convenient the Harbour Board would not ask for this for twelve months or even more, if the Education Board in the meantime paid the Harbour Board at bank rate of interest for overdraft accommodation. (Note: The original otter of the Harbour Board which was accepted by the hoard, was to take a 21 years’ lease of the section with the right of purchase at any time, the rent for the first five years to be 2A per cent, of the agreed value of the land, and 5 per cent, thereon for the remaining 16 years).—Copy of letter to be sent to the Department.

The Department approved of an ad ditional assistant at Otane and stated that the request for an additional assistant at Taradale woukl> be considered later.

The Waipawa School Committee protested against the short period allowed between notification of the names of applicants for a position on the school staff and the appointment being made. —To be informed that the time allowed was fixed by the Act, and that any further extension of the time for consultation would unduly delay the making of permanent appointments. The following subsidies had been approved by the Department:—Nelson Park £3O, Ruataniwha £7 16s Te Harapa £4l 13s 6d. Wairoa £3 10s, Westshore £5; total £B7 19s Gd.