SCHOOLS’ NEEDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19684, 16 July 1938, Page 8

SCHOOLS’ NEEDS

P.B. DISTRICT TOPICS EDUCATION BOARD MEETS MINISTER'S COAST VISIT REFRESH Eli FOR TEACHERS Many proposals for school improvements were approved at tiro Hawke’s Bay Education Board’s meeting yesterday in Napier, these including a number having reference to schools in the Poverty Bay, East Coast, and Wairoa districts. A sequel to the recent visit of the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, to the East Coast was the receipt. by the board of a recommendation from the Education Department that application should be made for a grant to cover the cost of removing a partition from the main class-room at Te Puia School, and the establishment of a manual training block comprising woodwork and cookery rooms, with shower-baths for the pupils as an additional facility if this provision could be made. The department also stated that the Minister had been impressed with the desirability of extending the Te Puia School site, and the board was asked to investigate the possibility of this scheme. A further recommendation was that a hot water -service in the Te Puia school residence should be treated as an urgent matter by the board.

The board agreed to take the steps recommended, and the architect was instructed to go into all the mattery referred, to in the letter. Departmental approval of a payment of 5s per school day for the use of the Tolaga Bay Parish Hall, for school purposes was signified in a further letter from Wellington. Half the cost of a new cycle shed at Te Karaka is to be provided by the board, the committee finding the balance out of its general funds. Request For School On behalf of householders of Willow Flat, Kotehaori, Mr. V. W. J. Pinkerton wrote asking for the establishment of a school in the locality, there being 11 children of school age in the settlement. The matter was deferred for a month, pending receipt of further information already applied for. Further appointments of school commissioners were reported by the secretary, these including Mr. A. H. McLeod, Mangatu Bchool, Mr. C. Renner, Papuni School, Messrs. S. F. Matheson and J. A. Burt, Putcre .School, and Mr. P. J. Howell. To Pohuc School. Vacancies on school committees were filled by nomination, these including the following:—Marumaru School, Mr. H. M. B. deLautour; Ngatapa School, Mr. L. Dolman; Te Hapara School, Mr. C. McCoy; Waipaoa School, Mr. E. T. Stone. On the question of a site for the new school at Ihungia, it was decided to inquire from the department as to the arrangement reached by the Minister with the settlers. Tolaga Bay Dental Clinic The committee of the school dental clinic at Tolaga Bay applied for the establishment of a clinic, at an estimated cost of £4OO, and asked for a subsidy of £2 for £1 upon funds already in the committee’s bands. Tfie board referred the application to the department. The Education Department advised that £3O would be available to promote teachers’ refresher courses in the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay district, and that the board would have power to supplement the grant from its general fund. In this connection, it was reported that teachers in the Central Hawke’s Bay district had applied for a refresher course, and that arrangements were well advanced for the holding of such a course in Gisborne. The board was of opinion that the department’s grant should be more liberal, and it was decided to ask for reconsideration of the matter.