HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2400, 4 March 1915, Page 7

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

JFrom Our Special Corresi>on<lGnt.l 'A meeting of the Lower Hutt District High School Committee was held la6t evening, there being present: Mr. H. Baldwin (chairman), the Rev. J. Gibson, and Messrs. Meldrum, Macaslrill, M'Douga!l, Woodward, Anson,, and Webley. Messrs. Burns and M'Bain, headmasters Main and Eastern Hutt Schools respectively, also attended. _ A letter from the Petone District High School Committee, in which the latter asked for the co-operation of the Hutt Committee in respect to the'application of the Education Board for an area of land on the Hutt Park, upon which a high school for the Hutt Valley might be erected led to considerable discussion. Several members spoke of the proposed site as being most suitable, the opinion being generally' held that five aores of land would be sufficient for the purpose. Mr. Macaskill stated that the interests and welfare of the children should bo their first consideration, and criticised the action of the Hutt Council in turning down the pro- , posal, whilst Mr. Me'drum (a councillor) ob jected to the suggested site, fearing it would spoil the park for other purposes. Finally Mr. M'Dougall moved: "That a sub-committee be appointed to further the proposal to establish a high school on the Hutt Park, such committee to confer with other school committees interested, and, if necessary, to deputationise the Education Board or Government, in order that the establishment of the high school might be proceeded with, with as little delay as possible." This was carried by a large majority, and a sub-committee, consisting of tile chairman, Messrs. Macaslrill, Woodward, Meldrum, and M'Dougall, with Mr. A. N. Burns to act as adviser, was set up to deal with the. matter. •The "Trentbam Cot" social organised by a Petone committee consjsting of Mosdames Boyd, Robinson, M'Vicker, Bryant, Griffiths, Harris, Olson, Driscoll, and Miss Boyd, and Messrs. M'Vicker, Robinson, A. and L. BoyJ, Bryant, Griffiths, Harris, and Olson, was held at the Petone Drill Hall last evening, and was attended by about 300 persons, including several mombers ot ttie Expeditionary Forces. Messrs. L. Boyd and Harris acted as M.C.'s, tlio music being supplied by Mcsdames Pollock and Harris. As there is practically no expenditure to ho met, it is probable that the amount required for the purchase of the cot will be over-sub-scribcd, The committee have decided to hand any surplus over to the Belgian Fund.