HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 17 February 1911, Page 8

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Oiir Own Correspondent.) ■Tho usual monthly meeting of the Pctone West School was .held last evening, there. being in nttendanco Messrs. Castle (chairman), Evans, Maynard, Marsden; Parrant, Cotton, Snow, and Davis. I'ho Pbtono Technical School . Board rroto offering to award six scholarships for the. school, viz., three for drawing and threo for woodwork. It was resolved to forward a letter of thanks to' tho Technical Baard. Tlio tender of Mr. \V. Kibun for tho erection of rifle racks was accented. Tho Education Board regretted that they could not accede to tho' committee's request to alter the school - as required for the establishment of a school' mii'scum. It . was resolved to- appoint Messrs. Castle, .. BurridgS, Davis, , and Evans a "deputation W wait upon the Minister for' Education and lay.-the-posi-tion before liim. Tho headmaster in his report stated that the school closed last yo.ar-with. e. roll -uumber of -103. .Forty pupils have been admitted during tho past fortnight/and iliirty-foucwithdrawn, lofmiis tho present roll number 103. Tim attendance oil opening,day was 376. Tho average attendance, for the past fortnight, was 380.. . A meeting o£ the railway 1 workshops contributors to the funds of tho. Petono Technical School was held-yesterday- to receivo tho resignation, of Mr. D. M«kenzie as their representative on tho Board of Managjrs. Mr. \V. L. Smith is likely, to be a candidate for the vacancy,