MOUTOA NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1055, 12 October 1911, Page 2

MOUTOA NOTES.

(Own Correspondent.)

For some time past the Moutoa School has been so overcrowded that a new room is imperative. After considerable effort, the room has been promised and the matter placed in the hands of the Board’s architect. Just at this stage a movement was started at the northern end of Moutoa, and a petition list sent to the Board asking that a new school be granted for the north end Instead of an additional class room for the present school. Then the battle royal began. Mr Fraser, member of the Board, met the residents on Tuesday evening at the Hall, Dr Wall’s corner, and the question was threshed out in his presence, more or less good-naturedly, but sometimes bordering on a little warmth, After due consideration of the arguments adduced, Mr Fraser gave it as his opinion that the additional room should be proceeded with, and that a new school to seat 40 should also be granted somewhere in the neighbourhood of the corner of the road leading to Mr Geo. Barber’s. Mr Fraser considered that the recent growth in population, and the prospect of a still further increase in the future, justified him asking the Board tor both, and that the residents need not be afraid that if one was granted the other could not he. U eraser thanked those p.c.-1-ni io; ng their cases before him so well, and he, also, was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his trouble and pains in coming to meet the residents.