NEW SCHOOL AT SEATOUN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 50, 22 November 1917, Page 9

NEW SCHOOL AT SEATOUN

GRANT OF £1725 MADE BY THE ' GOVERNMENT.

At yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Education Board, members were advised that the Government had made a. grant of £1725 for the erectiqn of a new school at' Seatoun, the site for which was acquired about six months ago. , , When the item was being considered, Mr A. W. Hogg ironically congratulated the board on having secured a grant so easily for Seatoun, when some of the country places liad to sutler, and ho referred to an instance Where a persistont effort to obtain a grant for a new school had not been successful. TT Mr. G. London .said that Mr. Hogg was evidently referring to Solway. Mr R. A. Wright. M.P., as actingchairman, said that Seatoun had gone through exactly the same vicissitudes that Solway was going through l.ow, until the Government "ad been compelled to make a grant at the iicmt of the bayonet. Mr. Forsyth:. Held by the membor for the district! (Smiles.) _ The secretary (Mr. Gr. L. Stovrait) B aid that they already had to rent two places in. that district—one at seatoun and the other at Miramar—as _side schools to the main school above \Yor6or Bay. • . i It is -understood' that an endeavour will be made to have the building of the new school commenced early next year.