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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 8

The Buildings Committee of the Canterbury Education Board reported, to a meeting of the board to-day that the Education Department would allow the board to sell the frontage of the school site on Staumbre I'oad for street widening purposes, the money to bo placed to the sites account. The committee recommended that the sale of the land to the council bo proceeded with, and that the council be asked for a grant towards the cost of the erection of a new fence on the street boundary. The report was adopted. "When the Beckenham School Committee granted permission to a local resident to graze his horse on a section, of land adjoining the school, it probably felt that it was making money easily, as it received in return for the grazing rights the sum of £2 a year. However, the Borough Council’ m whose district the school is, considered that the use of the land, for grazing purpose made the committee liable for rates amounting to £lO 10s, which would not be the case if the ground were used solely for school purposes. The board’s finance committee at a, meeting of the board to-day recommended that a legal opinion should bo obtained a« to the board’s liability tor payment of j-ntes in such circumstances. The committee’s recommendation was agreed to-