NGATEA HIGH SCHOOL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5446, 10 July 1929, Page 4

NGATEA HIGH SCHOOL.

MEETING OF COMMITTEE. The Ngatea District High School Committee held its monthly meeting on Monday evening, Mr W. McDuff presiding over Messrs C. S. Foster, C. Vagg, R. Cornthwaite, R. Rowlings, W. P. Wylde, and W. Chappell (secretary). Improvements to Grounds.

The chairman reported having inspected the playground in conjunction with the committee appointed. It had agreed that it was desirable to plough the *back section as the best means of levelling it. Up to the present he had not been able to get anyone to do the work. Conveyance of Children. The secretary of the Auckland Educatio Board wrote advising that if Mr G. Connell, the contractor for the conveyance of schoolchildren from Waitakaruru, provided a suitable vehicle the contract would be extended for one year, to the end of the year 1931. The headmaster mentioned that since Mr Connell had been using the big bus only one trip had been necessary, and as a result complaints had been made of the lateness of children arriving home. The position was now the same a. l it was prior to the putting on of the second bus, and there should not be complaints, as the Hopai children, for instance, were put off at the corner of the road at 4.10. The bus left the school punctually at 4 o’clock. He would go into the question of reducing the mid-day break for the high school pupils so that the bus could be let away earlier. This was agreed to, and it was decided to ascertain from the board whether the contract required two trips. New Tank. In reply to the committee’s application the Education Board forwarded a new tank of an improved type, and also a sum of money to pay for repairs to spouting, etc.

The chairman mentioned that the material for the stand and the timber for gates and garden borders were due to arrive that day.