SCHOOL COMMITTEES' ASSOCIATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10279, 14 May 1919, Page 8

SCHOOL COMMITTEES' ASSOCIATION

—i ■' -■»'■ "'■: ' '„■' ANNUAL MEETING. The annual-meetinai of the Wellington School Committees' Association was Held on Monday. Mr A. G. Wallace presided over a good attendance of delegates. The annual report as presented to the householders' meetings was adopted. The chairman made special mention of the resolution . requesting that the educational grant, should be increased to OCO, and pointed out that while it was necessary that the grant should be increased, it was absolutely imperative that the Government should obtain the best brains possible, as the war of the future would be a commercial war and the foundation of a commercial training must be "true and well laid" in the primary schools. Tho election of officers resulted aa follows:—President. Mr A. G. Wallace (Kilbirnie), re-elected : vice-presidents, Messrs Brenton Rule (Ngaio). BY J. Collie |lsland Bay), B. T. Bailey (Berhamuoie); secretary. Mr A. J. White (Brooklyn), re-elected: treasurer. Mr E. S. S. Hill (Brooklyn), re-elected; publicity officer, Mr E. T. Bailey; representative on Technical College. Mr A. G. Wallace. Tho following resolutions were od:That the executive be recommended to move in the direction of obtaining additional ground for the proposed Technical College site. That it be a recommendation to th* school committees that every endcarour should be made to inaugurate the scheme whereby scholars attending school could bo supplied with hot drinks. The Te Aro school committee wrote .signifying its intention of joining the 'association. The chairman urge,! upon members the desirability of endeavouring to- link up the one or two outstanding committees.