DURIE HILL AND EDUCATION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12767, 23 June 1911, Page 5

DURIE HILL AND EDUCATION.

THE PROSPECTS OF A SCHOOL

Although tho Government has made a- grant of £800 for th 3' new_school on Dune Hill, the structure "does not *.cem likely to materialise for somu time. The residents are said to be disinclined to contribute to the cost and the Board has taken up the firm attitude that unless the .residents do so, the school will not be erected. The position is that the Government grant ot £800 is to cover £470 for a school and £330 for half the cost of the site. The Board is looking to. the residents" to find the balance of the money, £330. The matter came up for discussion at tho Board on Wednesday evening. A deputation from the' Mars Hill Committee waited on the Board, putting forth the reasons! why the Mars Hilt school should not be .removed. Tho Board promised to give the representations of the. deputation .every sideration.Mr. F. M. Spurdle later on asked the Board to take some step in the matter of a school on Durie Hill, but Mr. Pirani emphasised that 'there was no prospect of the school being erected unless tho residents were prepared to assist. Mr. Spurdle protested how important it was to secure the site, wiuc*: was a splendid one for such" a.purpose, but Mr. Pirani said he favoured getting land from the Maoris at Pntiki. . Mr. Spurrtlo said this would no^ sclve the difficulty of the need of a school on Durie Hill. I' / ' Mr Pirani said .it would halve another difficulty, foi they would get. a school in Putilii. f Mr. Spurdle asked if a contributio?i or £-5U would be sufficient, but t.no Cliairman pointed out that half tho cost of the land was wanted. That was the position and he did not see why the people of Wanganui, who raised thousands of pounds for other objects, could not raise money for this purnose. Mr. Spnrdlo argued that the Board fhoiild ?pend what money it had, but this course did not meet the approval of t,he Chairnrm. Tho matter then dropped. Messrs O'Deri and Purnell supported the Oli.ainnan, stating that they did not think it would be fair to tretvs Duriatown differently to other places.

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