APPLICATION FOR SEPARATE SCHOOL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2862, 24 March 1925, Page 2

APPLICATION FOR SEPARATE SCHOOL.

AT THE SEASIDE. Ai yeslerday morning's conference liel ween the Chief Inspector and Education Board secretary and mouther and school Committee, Mr J Link-later, ALP., made a request that a separate school lie established at rho seaside instead of the present side school. He said popu • la I ion was increasing at the seaside and the need for a separate -ehool to meet the requirements of the children was now- apparent. The Harbour Board had set aside an area of three acres as a school site and ibe number of pupils m>w eni..lied was -H, and Hume, above Std. TV. had io proceed to Foxton. Mr Fraser pointed out that unless l hr- Act was amended as to lii-tanci' from the main school, ;i separate school could not he eslab- ! i.-lied.

The Chief hispeHor said that perhaps that difficulty eoiiltMio o\ freome. Mr Swmiger said that a petition from Bench residents had been l"f----w.-i riled t.i I lie Board requesting the I'stnblishmeut of a separate school. The Chief Inspector pointed out lhat the establishment of a separ„t,. school at the Beach would possibly reduce Hie grade of the local It was pointed out that the consent »»r the Minister would have to be obnined before a separate school was sanctioned.