WEST LYTTELTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4856, 23 January 1894, Page 3

WEST LYTTELTON.

la response to the ad7ertiaement of tha Education Board to householders in the West Lyttelton district, eomo thirty or thirty-five householders assembled in the schoolroom last night. Tha Mayor (Mr J. Thompson) occupied tha chair. He stated that the meeting had been called for the purpose of electing a committee and diecussing other business in connection with the formation of the new district. He then called upon the Key E. E. Chambers to give some details of the position. The Rev E. E. Chambers stated that in Jane or July last a petition hud been presented to the school committee ab ' Lyttelton from householders in the Weßt \ Lyttelton district, asking the Education 1 Board to create West Lyttelton a separate school district under the Education Act. The school committee had decided that ib 1 had no objection to the petition being presented to the Board. The petition was 1 presented at the July meeting of the [ Board, and after considerable corres- '■ pondence the Board of Education had 1 complied with the request, and had defined ' the boundaries as Hawkhursfc and Jack--1 son's Roade. He denied that he had 1 Buggeet3d this as a boundary; indeed he 1 and those working with him had fully ex- ! pected the Board to define the boundary as Salt's Gully. Some of thoße opposed to 1 the scheme had used the argument that by [ the opening of a new district the teachers at the present main school would have to ' put up with a reduction in their salaries. ; Now this wb,b not p,t all likely, for they ex- ' pected to take not more than thirty-sis 1 children away from the main school. '. This number would not affect the salaries of the teachers at the main school in the | least degree. p Captain M'Lollan said he was there that I evening to offer his protest at the action . of the Board in defining the boundary as Hawkhurst Eoad. He was, of course, | altogether opposed to the action of the 3 Board in making West Lyttelton into a 3 separate district, and he hoped even now the matter would be allowed to drop; _' He, although living in the district, did not intend to send his children to the j school in Weßt Lyttelton. a Captain Willis, as one of the householders who had presented the petition to the Education Board, said he had never y considered that the action the residents in i West Lyttelton were taking was in any & way opposed to tho interests of the east a school. He certainly did not consider that c he and those working with him bad i, suggested the boundaries, 2nd it wbb his ,' personal opinion that the boundary should }. be the Bridle Path and not the Hawkhnret n Eoad. q Mr H. Baker corroborated the stato* 1, ments made by previous speakers, a The election of a committee was then b, proceeded with. Fourteen nominations iB were received, from which the following is were elected : — Eev E. E. Chambers, !e Meßsrs F. Arnold, S. W. Willis, A. Gordon, • 8 H. Baker, J. Ashley and J. Webb, is A vote of tbanks to the Chairman II terminated the proceedings. is At a meeting of the newly-elocted d committee, Captain Willie waa elected c- chairman.