SCHOOL BICYCLE STAND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1744, 23 October 1917, Page 3

SCHOOL BICYCLE STAND.

About thirty pupils attending the local State school, who live about a mile from the school, travel by bicycle. The bicycles are sheltered in the quadrangle alongside the hat and coat racks, and take up much space. When the Chairman of the Board, together with the Chief Inspector and Secretary, visited the school, the Chairman suggested that application should be made to the Board for the erection of a bicycle stand. Application was made to the Board, hut no action was iaken. The bicycles still continue to rest against the wall in the quadrangle, to the inconvenience of the scholars. The Chairman of the local Committee wrote to the Board Chairman and asked him to give the Committee’s request his personal consideration, and has received the following reply: — “I am very sorry that your very much needed bicycle shed is not in the scheme of things for which the Education Board expends its hard-ly-retained cash,, It is one of those conveniences and comforts which arc believed to be the peculiar prerogative of parents and committees, and until a wider outlook or a greater, supply of -cash is available to the Boards, I am afraid an application for assistance for such a purpose would be made to deaf ears. There is just a possibility that a subsidy of £1 for £1 on local subscriptions would be obtained from the Government, and an inquiry to the Board from your Committee would enable us to obtain the information as to the probabilities.” ‘ The Committee is prepared to pay’ for the labour of construction provided the Board bears the cost of material.