MICHELLTOWN SCHOOL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1939, 23 December 1913, Page 5

MICHELLTOWN SCHOOL.

MOVE TO COPE WITH CONGESTION. Offing to tho present uncomfortable) congestion at tho Mitchelltowu School tho education authorities ■ have been faced with the necessity of moving to copo with tho matter. Tlio lines upon which tho authorities propose to move aro either to reduce the' number of scholars attending the sclwol to f.bo number it can conveniently hoM, or to amalgamate the school with the To Aro School district. Tho first of these proj»s:Us would, bring tho school under tho heading of a second-rate schc-o'l, for tho roll, which at present averages 2-11 scholars, wovlel be reduced to l.(5(l-. Tho amalgamation scliomft would mean that t!w scholars from the simier. standards would have to attend 'J'«s Aro School. Neither of theso proposals meet with tho approval of the Mitchelltown School 1 Committee, and last evening tho chairman, Mi. W, H. Hampton, with tho coininitk'e, presided over a meeting of residents to discuss the. matter. 'flao chairman said that in th<? event of amalgamation taking place, the two dis* tmts would elect a joint sehwol (»m« rnittec, and would practicably beconw oho School district. A rearrangement; of tho stall's would also ho reouiml, and a headmaster would Im.ve to bo appointed for the combined schools. Various spealtcrs poiutcd out that thft requirements of the senior scholars in tho way of tennis courts, playground, etc., -had been generously provided for at 3.litc!iollto'.v)i at considerable, expanse to tho committee, and that this .trod been appreciated was shown bv the high nvoru.jas attendances. A.u objection to tho Willis Street School was tho distance it was away from MitchelHown, and in rainy weather there \v»s prac* tically no shelter to be hah on the j-mir-licy down. Jf amalgamation did tu.ko place,'it was suggested.that tramway eon cess ions should'be mn.dfe to the children.

Two resolutions won? tarried. One pro* tested against the reduction in status of tho JljtcliolSt-oivn School, and onlicil upon thfe Education Board to rebuild at Mitclielttoim, and make it, a firstgrade school, Tlio other resolution instructed the school ccir.niittco to i)i*oparo a petition for presentation to th? Education Board on those lines.