THE PETONE SCHOOL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 82, 31 December 1907, Page 9

THE PETONE SCHOOL.

■--- .;;;/; pxatjx>us delay. • For sometime- past the_ residents 'of Petone fe b'ebn agitating- for increased school acnmodation, and deputation after deputa■n'lias waited upon the Education Board d .the Minister for Education. The queso -is purely one of site. Tho residents, in 'first instance, desired a site in proximity , tho -railway station which would serve Idrenfrom Korokoro and, the western ■ ts.':,'•'The- Minister, after viewing the htry,'-took exception, to tho site, prerin'g, another which would serve future rerements'between tho . Lower ffutt and one. Eventually the. Minister'consented bay'/.half the cost of a sito on -the Hutt I, belonging to Natives,- and-close to the ray'station. The Board approved/and orhmittee, consisting of tlie Chairman, ; v bain M'Donald, and Mr. Vilo, was apted;to select a portion of tho ground reon to erect the building. All went 'eli • iiiitil tho Education Board received animation from tho Department that the sum llocatceT for the site Would not'execed £750. he section cannot be purchased for £1500, ad'as the Board's finances haveboen conidorably drained -by othor demands for members do not consider thom- ' selves Justified in paying more than half. 'There the matter stands at present. Meantime, the residents of I'etone feel the want of,'he school,'and the Board has suggested ~i ■>.-: they take what action they consider siflsary to enforce their claim. • to the Minister at an early b, in which the Education Board will bo 3d to join, ; will probably bo the outcome.