NEW CITY SCHOOL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 22 July 1937, Page 12

NEW CITY SCHOOL

(Continued from page 11.) tension; and urged that he could demonstrate that that site was more central to the other schools than College Street by the simple, if somewhat misleading, expedient of introducing into the average the distance of that site from College Street itself. “After the informal meeting of the chairman in my office no further meet- ' ing was held because no site could he I suggested that was reasonably suitable and now available,” Mr Oram added. “Before attending the meeting of the board at which the postal ballot was decided upon 1 communicated with all the chairmen of school committees whom 1 could reach by telephone and the only objection to the.postal ballot came from Mr Black himself who gave as his reason that the members of the school committees would be prejudiced and that therefore the ballot would not be satisfactory. “I do not think that Mr Black showed very good taste in utilising publicly a private conversation that took place between us. Having done so, lie should not have mis-stated what I did say. My remark to Mr Black was that ii the postal ballot still showed a decision in favour of an independent site the board would have to go into tho whole matter again even if it meant postponing the establishment or an intermediate school in Palmerston JNortn for some time to come. “It might he interesting lor the board to know that at that meeting Mr Black stated that lie felt very bitter against the board because the board had never given the city schools in general and the Central School in cicular a lair deal, and stated lurthei that he was smarting under a sense ot injustice because a certain teacher had Wen appointed to a temporary position at Terrace End, having resigned from the Central School because of her impending marriage, and that under no circumstances, not even it no othei suitable relieving teacher was available, should she have been appointed even as a temporary relieving assistant to any other city school -seeing that her services had been lost to Central through her marriage If that does not sufficiently indicate Mr Black s biased attitude may I say that Mr Black has consistently advocated that Central and not College Street should he selected for the intermediate school for Palmerston North.” . On the motion of tho chairman, seconded by Mr Oram .the following resolution was carried: 1 bat the committees of tho Palmerston North schools be asked to meet the local mcinbers and the secretary and senior inspector of the board with a view to arriving at the definite expression of opinion with reference to the location of an intermediate school in Palmeiston North.”