MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4422, 2 June 1922, Page 2

MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

DISPOSAL OF THE lUND.

A meeting of subscribers to the Ngatea Memorial Fund was held in the Ngatea Public Hall last evening for the consideration of tlhe proposal . that the memorial, should take: the form of a district high school. Mr. Hallyhurton Johnstone was elected to the chair. Owing to the boisterous weather the attendance was not Urge.'

Mr. Johnstone said .that if permission were given for the erection of the school it could be called a district memorial high school, and that a tablet could be included in the building. He maintained that there could be no better purpose to which to devote the money.

Mr. E. Walton (secretary) detailed the negotiations with the Board and stated that 34 pupils had been promised for the school. The school committee was of one mind oh the matter, and it remained for> t)ie subscribers to the fund to approve of the money being utilised for the purpose of erecting a memorial' high school. He moved .that, the money be offered to the Education Department for the erection of such a school. Mr. Johnstone seconded the prbposal. He thought there would be no doubt in getting the school. The proposal was carried unani-

mously. On the motion of Messrs Hayward and Clare it was decided that furflier negotiations be left to the sub-com-mittee, consisting of Messers. Johnstone, Walton, and McDuff. A vote of thanks, proposed by Mr. McDuff, was passed to Mr. Clare for the use of; his motor-car when Messrs. McDuff and Walton were canvassing for promises of pupils for the school. ~ In connection with the high school proposal a letter from Mr. I. Bratlie, of Thames, will be of interest. Apologising for his absence at the meeting, Mr. Bratlie writes : (

“It is the coming generation that should be taught to remember the great war which) was fought for liberty and civilisation, the foundation of which is education. How, then, could you get a more appropriate memorial over the men who died for that ideal than an institution for the furtherance of the foundation of liberty ? I believe that most men who served and died, would have been in favour of a memorial 'of the kind pro 4 posed, inasmuch as, at any rate, it intends to strengthen the cause for which they, died.”