SCHOOL WARD SYSTEM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20238, 23 February 1934, Page 7

SCHOOL WARD SYSTEM.

Board Does Not Wish for Change. No alteration in the constitution of the wards into which its territory is divided is favoured by the Canterbury Education Board. At to-day’s meeting of the board, Mr S. R. Evison moved that the resolution passed at the January meeting, providing that the constitution of the wards remain as at present, be rescinded. Evison said it was an anomaly that such schools as Fendalton, Cashmere, Riccarton, Spreydon, Papanui and others should be grouped with schools as far away as Akaroa in the middle ward. He suggested that schools within a certain radius of the city should be included in an urban ward, which would be much more convenient. Mr G. W. Armitage said any alteration to the wards would require an amendment to the Act, and there was not time for that, to be effected before the next election of members of the board. The motion was unnecessary. Mr W. A. Banks said he was opposed to any alteration in the boundaries of rural wards, as they were fixed by natural boundaries. Mr C. S. Thompson said the board worked in the interests of all schools, and so no alteration in the ward system was necessary. Mr Evison’s motion was lost.