LINWOOD CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9676, 19 October 1909, Page 1

LINWOOD CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION.

"i . . ♦ ■■. - : A well' attended meeting of the.Linwood Citizens'** Association was held in the Oddfellows' Hail; Rolieston Street, on Friday evening, the president (Mr W. W. Tanner) in the. chair. The CityyCouucil .. 'wrote, informing the Association that Councillor horsley had been authorised to arrange tor gates at Linwood Park. In reply to the request <ji : the Association to the Education Board that the Phillipstown. fcschool should be made a main school, the Board stated that it could not disregard the exceptional conditions which existed in relation to the question. In order to give effect to the request, fire additional claßSrooms would have to be built, involving a large expenditure. Within a comparatively abort distance of Phiflipstown there were schools with accommodation to spare, and the formation of a main school at Philiipstown would necessitate the disestablishment of the Gloucester Street infant school as a separate* school.- Under these circumstances the Board could not accede to the request, but it had decided, to erect an additional class-room to accommodate Standard 11. children. j A deputation from the residents of Philiipstown waited on the Association and stated that a petition signed by five hundred and eighty-six persons had been forwarded to the Education Board, requesting that the school should be made a main school, and they had received the same' reply as the Association. The petitioners lived within half a mile of the scjjcol and represented . eight hundred and fiftythree children of school age. The deputation asked the Association to convene a public meeting to discuss the matter. ' It was unanimously decided to hold a public' meeting on Wednesday, October 27 ? at . 8 j>;m.i, and a committee, consisting of Messrs Tanner, Clarke. Fowler and Chappell Was appointed tv work in- '-conjunction, with the committee already termed in Philiipstown. It was also resolved that the School Committees' Association, should be asked to co-operate, and that an invitation should be extended to the East .Christchurch School Committee to attend the meeting. ■ Mr Senton reported that the lamp for Ellis' s Corner on- the New Brighton tram-line had been, placed, m position. He stated that the road from that corner to Sandiland's was in a bad Btate, and it .was resolved -to ask the Heathcote Road Board to place some metal on the road. The question of the renaming of the streets in Linwood was discussed, and it was decided that the City Counci' should be requested to defer the altering of Rolieston Street to Seymour Street until after it received a requisition for the retention of the old name. It was resolved that a letter of sympathy should be sent to the family of the late Mr W. O. Pavitt.