CENTRAL SCHOOL

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1935, Page 16

CENTRAL SCHOOL

ARRANGEMENTS FOR JUBILEE. ENTERTAINMENT WITH GRANT. The Central school committee met last night. Details of the programme for the school children during the Kings jubilee celebrations were drawn up. On Monday, May 6, the pupils will assemble in the quadrangle at 9 odod: and will march from the school to Pukekura Park to take part in the commemoration service at 10 o’clock. It has been arranged with the Regent Theatre to have a British film screened at 2 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, which the Central school children will be entitled.to attend free of charge. A grant of £l2 4s, or 4d per head, granted by the Government for the jubilee will be used for this purpose. Talks on the life and rule of His Majesty and the Royal Family will be given during the school hours of Thursday. . Owing to the absence of serious sickness, attendance for the three weeks ended April 26 were very satisfactory, although for a town school the average of 94.3 could not be considered high, said Mr. D. P. Evans, headmaster, in his report. The average weekly roll was 736, while the daily attendance had averaged 694.5. The roll numbered , 744 on May 1, compared with 722 on tlie corresponding date last year. One pupil had left and seven new pupils enrolled since the last meeting. The excellent attendance at the infant school had been maintained. Thanks from the Taranaki Presbyterian Women’s Bible Class were received for the use of the school and grounds during the Easter holidays. Mr. Evans said the rooms had been left in a clean and tidy condition and that no damage had been done. Miss Ritchie, a teacher at the school, had mentioned to Mr. Evans that the green lines marking the boundaries of the basketball area were unsatisfactory in wet weather. She suggested that white lines would be more suitable. The matter was left in the hands of the chairman. Mr. Fred. A. Coleman, chairman of the committee, commenting on the headmaster’s report; brought up maintenance matters. The fence along the inside of the row of trees at the upper school needed some repairing, and some shrubs at the infant school badly needed cleaning round, long grass growing up among the foliage. As unemployed labour could only be used for reconstruction and not for maintenance it was decided to refer the matter to the grounds committee, giving them power to act. Miss Terry, mistress of the infant school, wrote asking that the committee go into the matter of pupils having individual towels as she considered it far more sanitary. Mr. W. H. Huggett mentioned that a patent towel machine was in use in some schools. He said that, considering their advantage over the ordinary roller towels, their price was very reasonable. Messrs. Huggett and Holder were appointed to go into the question. Owing to the ill-health of his mother, Mr. Gordon, a teacher, who had intended to voyage to England this year, advised that he was staying at New Plymouth.

Those present were: Messrs. F. A. Coleman (chairman), F. C. Potter, W. H. Huggett, A. W. Holder, G. Catiiie, and J. O. Turner (secretary). Mr. Cathie is f new member of the committee, who, Mr. Coleman said, with his experience should prove a valuable acquisition.