PETONE HIGH SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2180, 19 June 1914, Page 5

PETONE HIGH SCHOOL

■- ■»■;■■ --* A meeting c-f the Petonc Dfetriet High School Committee was held last evening- Members present- wore: Messrs. D. M'Konzic Kjrk, Baivson, Bricc, Arfersan,. iowiu'end, •Taylor, adtt Wright. , Tho headmaster's report stated that tiler atiendawo for the month eliding June 1.2, had been, as follows ;-~Qn the roll at tire hcgmiitris* of the ino-Uth-. Friraafy deps.riEistn., 756; secondary de52; ; eiiralfcd during the ■month. printer}'- 24 } secondary I; with* drawm during tho montlj, .prini:ar.v '2f, s&wndary 2; oh the toll at tho end fif tho mauth, 'primary T53, secondary 51; average roll duriitg. the mdili¥. ptfnnarv T55, secand&fy 5|.; aroragi? halMally attfendatsco., primary 706, secondary 46. ■ St. Aiigustiw's Sunday School >vfls ■granted the usa-of a imm at the Mam %Jiewl. . . . .■ " '' A notification'from Mr. D. St. Yeats, lata headmaster at, tower Hutt High to the' effect- t ; hat ho. would be a candadate for a seat- on the- Education Board, was refieivedj. A discussion took place ■regarding tho ftrjids needed for a school library,' and .1 motion by jMf. A. Wright to the effect that the Sajt Valley Dramatic Society bo asltei t« produce a play, irt aid of tho library, or other f-uiitsf'was carried. The chairman' expressed the' Opiilion that' ho considered it iitadvi-s. able to.be swtinraliy beggiug from the public. ; Other mem-bars'also stated their opinions, some cQiisidwiii'g that tho Stateshould provide a library. It was «v£tttiisHy decided, *.n the motion <>f Mr. Anderson, "That the at* tentisii of tha Minister of Edttcateia be drawn to the fast that la) owing to the impoverished state of the school funds, the committee' wtts compelled to resort to divers methods of* raising money for library and' other purposes; <h) That this cqirimiMeo. again calls on th,o present Government, which, withdrew the free sehogi' books, to inimediatelj' festpte them', .