CAMBRIDGE SCHOOLS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20774, 6 April 1939, Page 11

CAMBRIDGE SCHOOLS

WHITEHALL CONSOLIDATION DI'S'G US'S lON'S BY GOAT MIT TEE (Special to Times) CAMBRIDGE, Tuesday. The monthly meeting of the Cambridge ' School Committee was held last Evening when the Rev. c. w. Chandler presided. Mr H. E. Amyes reported on a visit paid to Whitehall by a committee which ron*i*ted of Mr W. R. Garrard and himself. and Mr A. N. Marky. ward rf*pre*entaiive on the Auckland Education Board. The Whitehall eonimittee was met and the question dr consolidation dealt with, it being agreed that the scheme had many advantages. The Whitehall board derided to arrange : Tor a referendum or householders in the district, and tn be guided by the result, j It had been slated that no dejinite boundaries concerning the districts near White- ! hall were known, and Mr Markv agreed to : arrange for the information to be Torj warded by the Auckland Board. I Mrs P. Craig stated that there were ' only 13 pupils on the roll at Whitehall, ' four being in- Standard 6. she added that there was every likelihood of the j r °fi dropping at the end of the year. Delivery of IKilk I The eommittee discussed the delivery of riJWk tn the sehool. and it was agreed , that erates holding 4 2 bottles were too heavy ror primary sehool boys to carry. It was derided to request the contractor j to reduce the size or the crates to carry 2 1 bottles. 1 The headmaster. Mr J. G. Catran. rej poried that the primary roll stands at : 400. and the secondary roll at 93. The secretary. Mr B. s. Fntwistie. intimated that it wa* impossible ror him to carry on Ills dutie- in an honorary 1 capacity. [lie chairman slated that er- ' fort* luid been made to secure a grant I from the Eduraihin Board to reimhur-e . tin* secretary for hi* services, but a favoura'.d'' reply was unlikely. : \ committee was appointed, and it was 1 agreed t" lndd a special function in an ■ end-avour to raise the finance. The part that children or the Cambridge district will play in celebrating the centennial was discussed, and it was derided m support a scheme for improving the , swimming baths, while -several other sugI gestions were considered. T