EDUCATION BOARD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 319, 17 July 1930, Page 11

EDUCATION BOARD

THE WANGANUI DISTRICT DECISICNS AND REPORTS. The Wanganui Education Board met yesterday afternoon, there being present, Messrs W. A. Collins (chairman), Adams, Aitken, Dukeson, Tingey, Hornbio.*, Co(eman, Hemingway and Oram. Advice was received from Hunterville that the new school would be opened on Monday, July 21, at 2.30 p.m. The Education Department declined to make a grant towards new septic tanks at Westmere and South Makirikiri. Advice was also received from the Department that it declined to make a grant for the extension of the teachers’ residence verandah at Pukeokahoe and also for extension of the building nt Bainesse. The cite for the proposed dental clinic at Palmerston North was reported to be mutable and that a letter agreeing to it had been sent to the Department. Better shelter shed accommodation is to be provided at Oroua Downs, and the drainage improved. Certain improvements are to be carried out to the teacher’s residence at Owhakura.

Some of the pine trees at Mosston are to be cut down and the ventilation of the building improved. The rebuilding of the Cheltenham School is to be held over and brought forward when the list for next year’s urgent work is compiled. Drainage to the College Street School is to be carried out. The walls of the Fordell School are to be distempered. Permission is to be asked of the Department to remove teacher’s residences at Deniair and Table Flat. Improvements to the grounds at Castlecliff were left in the hands of the architect and chief agricultural instructor for report. An application for improving the new site at Hunterville was left in the hands of the chairman with power to act. The Pourangaki School is to be reopened. The architect’s report was as follows: Work Completed

Hokowhitu: The extension comprising one new classroom service corridor and porch entrance has been completed and is now in occupation. Hunterville: The new building, comprising four classrooms, one cloak and two teachers’ rooms with service corridors, and the necessary modern school appointments, has been completed, and occupation of the building may be made before the end of the present month.

Owhango: Repairs to the school and residence have been made. The school latrines have been thoroughly repaired and partly remodelled. Waimarino: The school chimney has been rebuilt above the roof. This work was made necessary in consequence of the action of heavy frosts upon the brickwork.

Horopito: The school, residence and out buildings have been repaired. Mangaeturoa: The school building has been repairedi Bunnythorpe: The school building has been painted in two coats to the exterior. The interior walls of the corridors have been renovatedTawhero: A bicycle shed has been erected. Ohakea: Additional storeroom space has been provided at the school. The teacher’s residence has been repaired. In this work was included the reblocking of the back portion of the building. Parewanui: A new range has been supplied and fixed and repairs carried out to the teacher’s residence. Glyneath: Repairs have been carried out to the main building.

Clydesdale: A bicycle shed has been erected. Bulls: A now bicycle shed has been erected, and repairs carried out to the main building. A close-board fence has been erected at the residence. A new diamond rail and wire fence has been erected across the front line of the school area, and two gates supplied and fixed.

Kaitoke: A septic tank and washdown pedestal closet system has been installed. Water for the operation of this system was obtained from a spring on the site of the teacher’s residence, some ten chains distant. The water is motor pumped to an elevated tank and the out-offices’ gravity fed from this storage. Manchester Street: A porch has been erected over the entrance of the infant room. Wanganui East: The damage done by fire has been made good and the room in which the fire occurred remodelled. Works in Hand Wanganui dental clinic: The work in connection with the dental clinic is now well in hand. Apiti: A slight remodelling of one classroom and general repairs to all the buildings, is now nearing completion. Valley Road: Repairs to the building are in hand. Utiku: The erection of a fuel sued is now nearing completion. Hunterville: The fencing of the boundary between the church property and the new area is in hand. St. John’s Hill: The fencing of the back boundary with a noven wire fence is nearing completion. This Month’s Proposals

Hunterville: To shift two rooms of the old building to a new position and remodel same. Patca: To remove the old woodwork room to a new position and to fence in school bathsMaintenance: To carry on with maintenance works.