TOWN SCHOOLS COMMITTEE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13646, 11 February 1913, Page 6

TOWN SCHOOLS COMMITTEE.

HOP PICKING AND EASTER

HOLIDAYS

The monthly meeting of tflie abovenamed committee was held last night, there being present: -Messrs.- Boyes (chairman), Savage, Karsten, Grove, Easdale, Wimsett, McConchie and Watson. • . . ''■'■'' ', . -.: '

The school return© showed there are 503 on the Toll in the boya' division, tlhe percentage of average attendance being 95.3, and for the girifi' division 621 on the roll, and percentage of average attendance being 92.4. The* Education Board notified,,that the., Department had allewed- airgrant for enlarging the Haven road school.—lt waa resolved to ask the Board, if possible, to have the work done during the hop picking.iholidays. ■ j In.xeply to an invitation, it was re-! solved that Messrs. Grove and Wimeett { attend, the meeting to be held on Fri-! day evening re proposed baths for Nel- j eon. (The opinion was expressed that if the baths were erected near the Trafalgar street north bridge both salt and fresh water could do provided). It was, resolved that Mr. Plum's estimate bo accepted for work to be done at the platform at the bojis' and girls' schools, etc., £4 5s for one, and £5 5s for the other; the work to be exectited during thejiop picking holidays, and to the satisfaction of the sub-committee. : ..... The chairman stated he had called the committee together, one. week earlier to decide übout l>he hop;'picking holidays. : •He1 -thought .the'-hblidaya Should: be :'fixed' vso Vas "to' include: the; • days-rgnreri^air-'Baste'r;■-■■::"■;■ ■■'■- •. •-' ' -}.1. \" • ■•■ ■' :_ '■■: ._ • ; In. reply to inquiries, the Riwaka !schools committee's wi"bte that hop picking would commence in that district about February 21st. Their committeee did not give the holidays till the hop picking was in full swing. The secretary of the Wakefield School Committee wrote that hop picking would commence in that district about the middle of February. ' '• It was resolved that tihe town schools ;be clcsed from Friday, February 28. till Wednesday, March 26th, for the hop picking and Eaeter holidays. It wasi re'solvTO that the secretary of i^he; committee write to the principal "school committees in Welh'ngton, Christdh'urch andDunedin to ascertain if those bodies paid water rates. It wag resolved that an account from Messrs. Carlisle and Co. in connection with defective drainage at the Boys' school he forwarded to the Education Department.

It was resolved to draw the Education Board's attention to the fact that work agreed to some time ago to be done at the Hampden street school had not been done. ,

Accounts were passed for payment, and the Committee then adjourned.