WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOLS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26771, 14 May 1948, Page 3

WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOLS

Monthly Meeting of Governors A motion that the board place on record its appreciation of the services rendered to the Waitaki Girls and Boys’ High Schools by Mr W. M. Cooper during the years 1940-48 when he was a member of the board representing the Otago Education Board was passed at the monthly meeting of the Waitaki High School Governors yesterday. The Rev. A. Marshall was in the chair. A telegram was received from Miss J. B Wilson stating that the following expupils, of the Girls' School had graduated and been capped:—Beryl Markham and Esme Miller, M.A.; Eitne Bradley, Gillian Fitzgerald, Beverley Stoap and Ann Stubbs, 8.A.; Lyall Gray, Ngaire McCulloch and Joan Wilkinson, Dip. Home Science; Ruth Upchurch, Dip. Education. The Department of Health advised that it proposed to set up a dental clinic for post-primary school children up to 16 years of age in Oamaru. It was desirable that such a clinic should be estabIshed in close proximity to the high schools. The department asked the board and the respective principals if suitable accommodation could be suggested.—lt was decided to advise the department that the board was agreeable to provide a site if the department would agree to erect buildings. Miss Wilson’s recommendation that Miss Elsie Anton be appointed as assistant matron was approved. In the course of her report, Miss Wilson stated that on May 7 Miss Mavis Macdonald terminated her engagement with the board, and presentations of a set of crystal glasses and jug and a silver tray were made by the pupils and staff. A collection for the United Nations Appeal for Children was made, when £22 14s 5d was subscribed by the girls. A further collection would be made when the school resumed. The tender of H. Newall of £75 for the topping and stacking of trees at the boys’ school was accepted. Mr Marshall reported that arising from an accident which occurred at the boys’ school in which a boy was injured by the school bus he and Mr D. S. Bain had inspected the area and suggested that a turn-around for school buses should be constructed between the bridge and the railway line, and that tradesmen's vans should use the road in front of the school to reach the back door. It was agreed to ask the County Council to allow the engineer to give an estimate of the construction of a bus turn-around. The matter of tradesmen’s vans using the front road was held over. Advice was received that under the will of Miss Catherine Ferguson, £IOO had been left to the girls’ school. It was decided to make application for a grant of £SO for the installation of an oxy-actylene welding plant at the bovs' school.