HUNTERVILLE SCHOOL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 169, 20 July 1939, Page 10

HUNTERVILLE SCHOOL

GROUND A QI AGMIRK IKGENT ATTENTION NEEDED EDI • A l’l( )N B( 'Alli ' S (’()NCERN ' The muddy state ol lhe grounds all j the Hunt ei ville Consolidated School i during the present wet weather was | stressed by Mr. L. A. Bailey at. yes- 1 terday’s meeting of the Wanganui! Education Board, when it. was dec) leu ' to defer the consolidation of the Putorino School with Hunterviile until the new building is ready and lhe grounds are improved. Mr. Bailey said that the playing area, which was .small, was in a very bad state and was nothing hut a bog hole. He moved that the consolidation of the Putorino School would be postponed for a while. "The grounds at Hunterviile are the most, disgraceful in the board’s area." said Mr. P. Monro. "It is impossible to imagine anything.worse.” Mr. A. S. Coleman said that the grounds would never be improved ' until water’ was stopped from coming down from the neighbouring rise. ‘ "1 think that wc should make strong representations to the Minister ci i Education as well as the Public Works; Department to have the ground put in | order before even one extra child i> : admitted to the school," commented i 1 the chairman, Mr. E. F. Hemingway, i ' Mr. Bailey said that the Huntervill School and the Putorino School haci' agreed that the consolidation proposal. '' should be held in abeyance until the grounds were improved. j ; The chairman said that the Minister of Education had inspected the] grounds and would probably get the; i Public Works Department to have the I.' work done immediately. > . The architect, Mr. E. R. Hodge >aid| that, he was going to Hunterviile on ' Thursday ana would prepare a repoi i ■ on the condition of the grounds. ; 1 "The school committee is one oi the ; best in our district," said the rhairma/. 1 in agreeing to a suggestion that a| copy of the architects report should! be forwarded to the committee. Il was agreed to defer the consolidation proposals and to make representations to the Minister of Education and the Public Works Department to have the ground improvement work expedited.