EDUCATION AFFAIRS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 12

EDUCATION AFFAIRS

J ; MEETING OF THE BOARD t 1 WORK ON NEW BUILDING e t The monthly meeting of me Wan--1 ganui Education Board was held yes- • terday, Mr. E. F. Hemingway presia- £ 1 ing. Those present w ere Messis. ' •’ tl. Brown. A. S. Coleman, W. I’. Bene- ? ’ field, T. W. Batchelar, I. W. Mudford, < ' P. Munro and L. A. Bailey. The chairman, in his monthly re- ’ port, stated that he had attended the e > annual primary school sports at Wan- < 1 ganui and was impressed with the $ ’ excellent work being done in lhe r s schools to improve the health and t • physique of the children. These re- £ •’ marks applied to the Patea and dis- j 1 trict school sports on the following r day. r Advice was received from the Edu- t cation Department of its approval of a grant of two-thirds of the cost of t adding a waiting room and a nurse's r room to the dental clinic building at ‘ the Wanganui East School. A similar grant was received for the erection of 5 a type B dental clinic at the Ohakur.e 1 School. 1 An application was received Iroin < ‘ the committee of the Manunui School f 1 for the installation ot a hot water t heating system and the erection ot a t ’ fuel shed. On the suggestion ot the < architect, it was decided to recommend \ 5 that an an heater should be in- < 1 stalled. The architect recommended , that a fuel shed should be erected \ ' after it was ascertained what type of { I heating system was to be used. , The committee of the Martop. Dis- , trict High School applied for assist I ance toward the cost of sealing certain j ’ of its footpaths, the board agreeing j - to grant £3O toward the work when j ? funds permit. ( A subsidy toward the cost of laying , J down concrete in the school grounds j ‘ was sought by the committee ot the ? Kakaramea School. The board decided to give a subsidy of halt the cost f up to maximum of £l5. I Alterations to an existing cycle ; I shed and the provision of additional 1 J cycle accommodation are to be carried 1 I I out at the Queen’s Park School when funds permit, the architect stating I that the cost would be about £OO. i Mr. Royston MacGregor, of New i •; South Wales, was refused permission < to visit schools in the boards district ] after hours to give entertainments. ' It was decided to inform the applicant that he could secure the use of local '' i halls if he desired. . , I A lengthy report was submitted uy j the secretary, Mr. G. N. Boulton, con- . taming suggestions for alterations in j lhe scale ot payments of incidentals ( to school committees. 11 , An invitation was accepted to at- : ° I tend the jubilee celebrations ol the : p'Linton School on Saturday, May 12. ; / i The chairman reported that he had 1 g I authorised the extension of the con- *’ ‘tract for the conveyance of children \ from Lismore and the Papapara dis- . j tricts to May S, 1941. ”1 The architect, Mr. E. R. Hodge, rep (ported that the work on lhe construcition additions to the Marton District i . High School were well under way A i 'start had been made with the l.nishn m." trimmings. The builder had made , ' a start with the new Intermediate a, I School at Palmerston North, and z 5 : / men were employed in laying the v foundations.