MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL

Southland Times, Issue 23693, 16 December 1938, Page 9

MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL

NIGHTCAPS BUILDING APPROVED DENTAL CLINIC SANCTIONED FOR TUATAPERE A manual training building for Nightcaps and a dental clinic for Tuatapere are included in additions and improvements to a number of school buildings and residences in Southland that have been approved by the Education Department, according to advice received at yesterday’s meeting of the Southland Education Board. The following works were sanctioned: Waimahaka (additions to residence), Five Rivers (additional accommodation), Nightcaps (manual training building), Winton (two new rooms). Knapdale (additions to residence) and Limehills (new residence). The Post and Telegraph Department wrote stating that the development of the automatic telephone system had resulted in a large number of manual telephones, in sound condition and efficient in service, being withdrawn from use and taken back into stock. As many of those telephones were definitely surplus to departmental requirements, it had been decided to issue them free of cost to schools which could make use of them for inter-communi-cation purposes in school premises, where the instruments might be of some educational value to school children as well as a convenience in the conduct of the school. • Mr L. S. Alsweiler said he thought some of the bigger schools could make good use of the telephones, and it was decided to refer the department’s letter to the schools.

NEW SCHOOL SOUGHT An application for a new school was received from the Clifton School Committee. . The chairman, Mr S. Rice, said there had been such a press of work that the architect had' not been able to cope 'with it. Plans were in the course of preparation. . , A request was received for a raDDitproof fence round the Croydon Bush School and residence and it was decided to make a grant of £4 towards the cost; the committee to undertake the work. _ . . , , The head teacher at Dacre, which has gone up to Grade 1118, wrote asking whether there was any possibility of an extra room being built on to the present one during the summer holidays. The secretary was requested to make the necessary inquiries. A new school at Granity was asked for by the School Committee. The chairman said he thought the board would be fully justified in applying, for a grant for a new school and residence, An application from the teacher at Grove Bush for improvements to the residence was referred to the architect for a report. , • . The architect was also requested to report on an application from the teacher at Morton Mains Siding School for another room to the residence. An application for elecitic light and the painting of the residence at Motu Rimu was left to the architect. The board agreed to a request to pay £23 towards the cost of erecting a fence round the Oteramika School tennis court and to erect the fence. It was stated that the committee was prepared to contribute £4O. The chairman wished members of the board and the staff a Happy Nev/ Year. He thanked them for the harmony that had prevailed during the year, and said they had managed to smooth over anything of a contentious nature and carry on the work to the benefit of education in Southland. In replying the senior inspector, Mr S. J. Irwin, said that the year had been the most strenuous one since he had come to Southland, and mentioned that public interest m the schools had been increased. Mr Hugh Smith also replied. The meeting was attended by Messrs S. Rice (chairman), J. Campbell, F. G. Stevenson, L. S. Alsweiler, W. Excell, W. Bell and Hugh Smith.