GONVILLE SCHOOL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 11 March 1908, Page 2

GONVILLE SCHOOL.

A meeting cf parents and others interestedl in the erection of the Gonvi le School was held in the Gonville Hall on r Monday evening., The Chairman (Mr A. G. Bignell) stated that the Board-had-purchased a site of 1£ acres for the school for £303 at the junction of four roads, between Alma Road and •Gonville Avenue. The Government had . given a grant of £600, £150 of which it was •understood was. to go' tow.a ?.'d s tho cost of the site and the balance . for a building. The' Beard had decided to erect the school on tho hill pixp vided the residents levelled the site, which it was estimated would, with claying and metalling, cost about £60. He .sugerested that the Wanganui School Committee might assist Avith a gi-ant ' particularly as that body .had-'Se-eii-re- , ~ceiving a ;cap-itatipn••. gra:irti Mpm:,]'- ■■ t^e: Board on accfoiint' of the^ ,cli,ild.-en attending the Gonville sclhool. Mr Bienell a rided that there v ere over 60 children en the roll, and in consequence of th» a'commor'lation in the Hall bsinf inade-' the third stardard children had to'Jbs sent to 'town. " ' Mr W. Bruce fthp Chnirman of the bchool Committee) thought the' -o~mnntte.n wouM' bo leased to assist the Gortvillo School. "Hi* 'advised tlr-t au effort should! be raaf'e i>T- se-ure n larger area for the school ground, v hieh lie thought Avould be required as the distnrt proziTss-7, and suogestel that an J addition \l rices of lard might bo a^- ( quiredl en, lease, wit\ a purchasing i clause. The Bom-d pi-orosed ei'octinfl; a I 60-school. but taking into consideration | the growth of tb« district, he thouoht sit least a Viil'Unqf si-cnld be er'flted to i at'oommodate 100 ohildren. Hp nc-•corJini-lv snijr^sted that rp.'.m^rt-fnn should be mads to the Bo irJ on the puliject. Mr A Fere-nson «ta J-pd1 in answer to ■■• question ihat t^p Cha'i-'VTi of th" F-lucaf on Bowl hid i"timot-d that th^ Board wero- favoin-aVo to a full sc^p-il. hr^ place nf t^achin^ only up to th» third stairia^l. ?s ai r-ro&m^ ii v.*\\ c h case "nnside'aVv "<v°v 100 c'l^^vcn would havn. to b- nr-vidc-i for. It -v t* rlpfn'd-d Mown A G Biecppll, F. W-b^ .To^o^ svi U. P. 1 n-,----r 7on. hi> i mminhVfni +r> r^ll fo" l"nr 1e nvs for the lev?lli.i"- of th- r-it" "^ so-m as th-* moiT*-Nv mp<> ii It)"d.

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