EDUCATION BOARD
| MEETING IN NAPIER I MANY DISTRICT ISSUES NEW TOLAGA BAY SITE Many matters of district interest were dealt with by the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, which held its monthly meeting in Napier on Friday. The Education Department advised that the grant to cover the cost, of rebuilding the Mihiwhetu School in the Tolaga Bay district, recently destroyed by fire, had been approved. The department also advised the board that the employment of additional assistants next year had been approved in the following cases: Te Karaka, Tolaga Bay, Waipawa, Waipukurau and Woodville. An additional assistant also was approved for Te ITapara School, pending the opening of the new intermediate school in Gisborne.
The board confirmed recommendations made by the secretary and the chief inspector of schools, relative to I the holding of refresher courses for j teachers in Napier, Hastings and Waipukurau next year. ; The report of the secretary relating ! to the selection of a school site in Tolaga Bay, and the receipt of a petition from 107 householders of Tolaga Bay protesting against a suggestion that the new school should be built on the Hauiti side of the river, aroused much interest.
The secretary’s report stated that as a result of the decision at the previous board meeting, the Tolaga Bay School Committee had been advised that in view of the difficuties of obtaining the desired site on the Domain, the board was of opinion that a suitable site on the Hauiti side of the river should be acquired. The committee, which was asked to submit its comments on this scheme, had sent in no statement.
On the other hand, Mr. H. L. Tempest had forwarded the petition of 107 householders protesting against the intention of the board, on the ground that it would mc-an the use of the Uawa River bridge by a majority of the children attending the school.
The board discussed the matter at length, and eventually called upon the architect to prepare a report on the building site under discussion.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 8
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