Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 39, 18 October 1946, Page 5

Local and General

Class at Hospital At the last meeting of the Whakatane School Committee, the chairman (Mr J. W. Wilson) intimated that he had received notification from the Board to the effect that next year a. class was to be established at the Whakatane Hospital, where there were a number of children who were almost ‘permanent’ patients. A teacher would be supplied.

An Intermediate School The attention of readers is drawn to an advertisement appearing in today’s issue concerning a public meeting which will be addressed at the Awakeri School at 8 p.m. on Monday, October 21, by Mr Mills, School Inspector, on the subject of the proposed Intermediate School. Parents of children at present in lower Standards of outlying schools ' are particularly invited to attend.

Cadet Cup Winner The Robert Fryar Memorial Cup awarded to the best cadet in the Northern Military District was this year won by Sergeant Russell Law, of the Whakatane District High School cadet unit. This information was conveyed to the Whakatane School Committee at its meeting last Wednesday evening. The note, which was contained in the Headmaster’s (Mr I. B. Hubbard) report, added that Brigadier Williams, Officer Commanding the Northern Military District was to visit the school on Wednesday, October 23, to review the unit and to present the cup.

Proposed School Pavilion «. At the last meeting of the Whakatane School Committee, members inspected a scale model of the sports pavilion which the committee proposes to erect in the future to serve the requirements of sport and physical training carried on under the school syllabus. The model, which consisted of the framework of the building, was the work of the woodwork instructor, Mr Wylde, who constructed it for use in teaching his classes theory of building construction. The work on the actual building will be undertaken by the trained boys . under the supervision of Mr Wylde. A School Uniform In reply to a question at the last meeting of the Whakatane School Committee as to whether there was any definite information concerning the rumour that the school was to supply caps to pupils,, the chairman (Mr J. W. Wilson) intimated that the whole matter had arisen from a circular received by the pupils from, the Headmaster asking parents to procure if possible, articles of school uniform when purchasing clothes for their children. There was no compulsion attached to it. Actually, he added, the better method would have been to approach some of the local drapers, enquire whether such stocks, were obtainable, and arrange for them to be made available.

An Intermediate School '"“I understand that the establishment oi an Intermediate School is not an automatic procedure, but must be backed of parents, particularly in outside districts, who must be willing to send their children to a central school,” said the- Chairman of the Whakatane School Committee (Mr J..W. Wilson) at the last meeting. Continuing, he said that the committee was looked to for a lead in preparing the ground in this direction. Arrangements had been made for the Senior Inspector of Schools, Mr Merrington, to address a meeting of parents, but as he was not now available, another Inspector, Mr Mills, was to fill his place. A public meeting, he concluded, would be addressed at Awakeri next Monday evening.