SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS
LAYING-OUT OF GROUNDS PROPOSAL TO RAISE MONEY At the last meeting of the Whakatane School Committee, a proposal was put forward by the Headmaster (Mr I. B. Hubbard) that the school grounds should be laid out in a simple yet attractive form, in order to make the best use of the aisea. In this way they would require the minimum amount of work to keep them in order, yet would always be neat and at their rate a campaign early next year with £SOO to ,£IOOO as the object in view. He instanced several other schools including Tauranga, the Mount, . and Otorohanga, all of which had done this and collected substantial sums, all well over £IOOO for such pui-poses. * Commenting on the scheme, the chairman stated that he thought the grounds could certainly be made to look very attractive. Mr Clarke was not at all in favour of the idea. He would much sooner see such a sum spent on educational purposes, rather than on improving the grounds. The school was there primarily for education, and if there was any money to spend, it should be spent in furthering this objective, and not in making a showplace out of the grounds. The technical classes, for instance could be assisted substantially with such a sum.
The Headmaster pointed out that by putting the work he suggested into the grounds, one caretaker could look after it very well. At present there was a lot of ground not directly usable, and this could all be brought into cultivation; concrete paths could be laid down and other improvements effected. The schools he mentioned had done this to very good effect. The Chairman: Such things as paths are the Department’s job, and I don’t see that we could ask the public tp contribute mpney for such work.
Mr Dainton: I don’t think we could very well go to the public anyway. People have , been asked to contribute to so many appeals that I glon’t think another one would, be very well received.
Mr LysaghL-All the same, I think we might be able to do something. The Chairman: Yes. Any outside funds we, could raise would be very acceptable.
Mr Lysaght: We have made very few appeals to the public on bekalf of education. Only one in fact in the last eight years, and that was not a very strenuous one. It was decided to discuss the matter at a future meeting.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 55, 27 November 1946, Page 5
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