WAIMATE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 27 May 1914, Page 4

WAIMATE.

A special meeting of tho .TVfiimat' Schcol Committee decided to tlinnkfn concur with the suggestion of the TY r ai mate High School Board that tl Borough Council's offer of 5J acres ncai tho school- (for playground extonsioh) tthe Education Board for £GOO, shoul' bo accepted by the Hish School Boar£ instead of tho Education Beard. th< idea being that the school will get tlv use of the land for plnyground an- 1 agricultural purposes ' until-. ii may be wanted for other ournose?, suoh as a site for a full Hicli School. Tbo com mittee had set cut to collect £100 to wards the tost, of which £30 is alrea'! in liand. aid ~bou* *.-10 raor» n'omiW while tho P.imo Minister had uuderl taken to dye £ for £ up to £67. The canvass is "eld uv> t-1-erefore, till the Education Board decides how to take tho High School Board's offer. At Vuiectin-r of the Honorary Territorhls' Association yesterday Mr Nor ton Frnnris resigned the secretaryship, owing to b*'s bfirig a candidate for Par Ihment and being pressed for time Mis Fanjuh.-irson, M.A., waft appointed to the position. The membership i* now over TOO. Since tho initiation of the movement. Oadet snort* been promoted, liw.rirs sent to tIV Kowa' camp for the Territorials, and in other ways tl»o nvnnivw-s have tangibly sym pathLod with *he "Defence forces. If was decided to hold a social .in con-

i;«'xion with the annual meeting, at which the Territori* 1 -" mB bo the .euei-ts of the Association.