HUTT AND-PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 798, 22 April 1910, Page 8

HUTT AND-PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Special Correspondent) .'■ ' . .''»' ' ":\, . - -. ■ THE FOOTBALL GROUNDS. In reference to the football mounds controversy betwea.a the Petone Borough Council , and the local Football Club, Councillor List has given notice to move at the council meeting on Tuesday night: "Thatthe minutes of ■ April 18,. relating to the granting of a football ground to St. David's Association Football Clnb be rescinded, and that the Petone Football Club be granted the use of two grounds, at a rental of <£12 for .tin season.

PETONE WEST SCHOOL. ''The'final meeting for the year of the Petone West School Committee was held last evening. Present: Messrs. J. C. Castle (chairman), Erans, Davis, Maycard, Cotton, : Burridge, and Parrant. The committee invited ■ Messrs;' Beddingfield and Robertson to act as judges for the garden plots, as Mr. Dndding wbs unablo to 'do so. A .-vote of thanks ■was accorded Mr. S. Burridge for his donation of £1 Is. for the best plot. The ■ secretary's report: showed that a water service had been laid all round the school and that the garden plot scheme had been a,gr<>at success. i The • headmaster's report stated that the school had opened last September with 394 names on the roll. During the fust term .46 were admitted and 45 withdrawnv leaving a roll at the end of the term of 395. Daring the second term 78 were admitted and 81 withdrawn, leaving a roll at the end of March of 392. The average attendance for this, term was 348. • .:.:■■■

HIGH SCHOOL QUESTION. On Tuesday next a deputation from the Wellington Education > Board will v/ait upon the Minister for Education (the Hon.' Geo. Fowlds), in.- reference to the establishment of a district' high school at Petoae; : ' . .