GISBORNE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1407, 18 March 1905, Page 2

GISBORNE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Tfio School Committee mot last nlgTit- -There were present: Messrs J. W. Bright (Chairman)* • G-raham, Humphreys, Somervell, File, Oh-arch, and Brown. . y * Mr T. G. Lawless wrote : •“ On beJiali' of the petitioners for a public school at K'aiiti and. Wainui, I forward particulars asked for in yqur letter; of 23rd iilt.,. and inform you •that at a meeting of householders it was decided to recommend that a site lor a school be chosen somewhere in the vicinity of Tyndall and Russel • roads, Kaiti. A; plan, isj enclosed of the locality suggested, which appears to be fairly central. The petition, which was from, ivaiti residents,, stated that there were over 55 fami|lies in the area, and the population was . rapidly increasing ; • the number of ' children afcjjreseni of school age was about 100, some of whom bad ,to com* *1 oyer four miles ta attend the .Sishorno school, while the majoirity livod more than a mile and a half' distant from that school. , The distance and the had state of the roads in the Winter were referred it o/ children fe.iviug to be kept from sobool in wet .winter, in order to preserve their health and constitution., fijoi reach the school at tire opening hopy, the children had to rise early,, and could not get home until late, not until after darkness had set in during ipe winter. <A central and suitable site, it waa urged, could be obtained, and a school erected at a ccmParatively small cost, as compared to the great good which would ' he iinmoalately ■derived from such a school being erected. If such a school were established better .TJre- | suits would bo obtained both 'for, children and the teaching staff, consequent upon the more regular attendance, and under the more favor- ' able circumstances in every, respect. • - 11 ?, Lawless said the committeo would notice from the petition .that tnere were 88 pupils between the ages of 7 and 13, 36. between the ages of a and 7, an(d 25 of ‘ various otiier ages. The site s,ugges’tetWbifi the petitioners wasi very central, afak 1 he thought the land could be ' taken dmter the Public Works Apt. 1 e-JiF •i'hair.man and other -members 01 tne committee were in laybr .of acceding to the request of / the petitioners, and the Secretary, was instructed •tp forward it? to the Hiawke’s Bay. Education BjOard with the committee's reeommwidation for its favorable considerat Mr Lawless thanked t and withdrew. "uA Messrs Parley and F\ %?. then Wailed on the commit, a petition from a number of'- V,1.! Morcu residents asking for the ' a ®£kooi in that district.- Jj ~ ■ " h f Chairman said tbatt hc siulp- , : :|S Dosed the committee shoulnj rocommend thin petition also. Efts V did not , •*- believe in decentral i sing the . schorls, although it would bo a great}. advantage to tbo yo.unger ones •ehc I uiore advanced pupils would a r lways attend the main school. \ kb was unanimously agreed tn> r.«, commend: the .petition -to the Ed.-tics', . •*-« tioa B.aardi. \ , ( ......