BAND EQUIPMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27078, 12 May 1949, Page 3

BAND EQUIPMENT

Request For Assistance Advice that the Waitaki Boys’ High School required £I4OO to buy a new set of band instruments was received at the monthly meeting of the Waitaki High Schools Board of Governors on Tuesday night. The rector, Mr J. T. Burrows, advised that £SOO had been raised by the pupils in one month towards this fund, and it was hoped that £BOO would be raised by the end of the year. A request to the board to apply to the education department for a grant to help to pay for the instruments was made. Tire Rev. A. Marshall was in the chair, and there were also present Mrs M. E. Berry, Messrs D. S. Bain, W. Meldrum and C. F. Ridgin. Grants of ££lßl 5s 6d for metalwork equipment and £l5O for general science equipment at the Waitaki Boys’ High School, and £165 for woodwork machinery and equipment at the Technical School were received from the Education Department. Miss J. B. Wilson, principal of the girls' school reported that Miss J, Runciman had left the school on April 30 and that Miss H. P. Gray, an English teacher on leave in New Zealand had acted as a relieving mistress- at the Junior High School. During the first term 30 fbod parcels had been sent overseas and many letters of appreciation had been received. Miss Wilson added that at a service on the morning of May 3, Mrs Pottinger, president, and Miss Schriffer, vice-presi-dent, of the Waitaki Old Girls’ Association, Dunedin, had made a presentation to the school of a bible in memory of Miss C! Ferguson, lady principal from 1893 to 1919.