A NOVEL SCHOOL BOARD DIFFICULTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6928, 31 January 1884, Page 5

A NOVEL SCHOOL BOARD DIFFICULTY.

♦ [BY TELEGRAPH, —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Greymouth, Wednesday. Qdite a novel feature in educational difficulties cropped up here to-day. Two days ago Seabrook and Arnold, builders, got three judgments against the Education Board for arrears for erection of school buildings, for which chequeß had been given five months acjo. Besides this tbey are owed by the Board £330, some of it having been owing twenty months. All this work was publicly tendered for, and 75 per cent, was to be paid in progress payments, of which the contractors received nothing. For several days attempts were made to put bailiffs in the Education Board offices, and take possession of the books and stationery, but without avail, and to-day the bailiff walked into the State School, and now a man is in possession, the children being sent home. Early in the afternoon the contractors waited upon Sir 0. Gibbes, the representative of the Government sent to the coast on this matter, and he said he could not promise their debts would be liquidated before Parliament met, and that then they would probably have to wait another five months. Besides all this these contractors now have contracts in hand for the Board amounting to £600.