Feilding Agricultural High School

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 36, 12 February 1937, Page 3

Feilding Agricultural High School

BOARD OF MANAGERS MEET The Board of Managers of the Feilding Agricultural High School met on Wednesday evening Mr J. Knight (chairman) presiding. There were also present Messrs A. 0. Buist, T. S. Goldsmith, W. W. Andrews, L. T. Wild (Principal), E. H. Brewer, W. A. Salt, H. Mclntyre, W. Challis, J. S. Tingey, aud Mrs J. E. Barltrop. Reporting on the matter of the scholarships offered by the Federation of Women’s Institutes for use at the school Mr Wild said that he had circularised all primary schools setting out the conditions of the scholarships but owing to the advent of the Christmas holidays and the extension of thoso holidays owing to tho infantile paralysis epidemic, few replies had been received and actually only two boys had been nominated. The matter was more or less in abeyance until tho schools resumed and Mr Wild assumed that the board would leavo tho matter in his hands, particularly in deciding the eligibility of the nominees. This was agreeablo to tho board. Tho meeting authorised the special sub-committee set up for the purpose to proceed with the construction of four asphalt tennis courts on the best terms available. Principal’B Report Mr Wild reported as follows: — ‘ ‘The postponement of the opening of school for a fortnight, while a serious inconvenience from the point of view of work iu connection with the Feilding Show and the harvest, has been a great advantage in giving us further time for preparation of the annex for the addioual boarders. Tho further postponement till March is more serious in curtailing the time required to cover a normal year’s work. However, if the second term vacation is shortened by a full week, it will be possiblo to make up a good deal of leeway. “I have been enrolling pupils and interviewing parents as they came along and will fix definite days next week. In the following week—the last week in February—all the staff will be rocalled with a view to completing tho organisation for an immediate commencement when school opens on March I. Meantime, thoso members who are associated with farm work are already fully occupied. l * Under authority delegated by the board, Mr T. James, of Masterton, has been appointed groundsman and has commenced duty. Mr James is a representative cricketer, and, by training and experience, thoroughly competent for the work. As the tenders for the construction of tennis courts were higher than anticipated, that matter is in abeyance. *‘As the boarders, who have hitherto comprised School House, now greatly outnumber the two day boys houses— Manawatu and Rangitikei—it is proposed to subdivide the School and to name the new house in honour of Mr Hector Booth, pioneer settler and one of the founders of the school. 11 In regard to the farm I am reporting only briefly at present. Oats have been stacked and are a fairly good crop. Wheat and barley have both suffered from the weather, but are good crops still in stock. Wo have benefited from the rise in the price of wool and related products and there is every promise of outstanding returns for the year. At the Feilding Show we gained a good share of awards including two championships and two reserve championships. Wo were most strikingly successful this year with pigs.