SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 659, 11 October 1933, Page 6

SCHOOL COMMITTEE

MEETING HELD BY ROTORUA EXECUTTVE LAST (WEEK NEW PIANO REQUIRED The following were present1 at a rneeting of the Rotorua Primary School Committee . held last Friday evening: Messrs C. A. Clarke (chairman), N. M. Keane, N. B. Hunt, R. Griffiths, H. C. Smith, B. M. Green (headmaster) and A. T. Butt (secretary). The headmaster reported on general work carried out in the school grounds since the previous rneeting and also necessary maintenance work required in the buildings. The roll number was stated as 516 and the average attendance at 473.4. The attendance had been somewhat lessened on account of prevailing sickness. The headmasted also recommended to the committee that an additional piano should be secured in order fhat the musical education of the children might be more successfully provided for. He considered that another p.ian0 could be secured by public donation without the necessity for recourse to the committee's funds. The proposal met with the full support •of the committee and efforts are to be made to secure the piano. On the motion of the chairman, a request by the headmaster that the school be granted a half-holiday t>n October 11 for the purpose of entering the Primary Schools Swimming Association's carnival in the Blue Baths was granted."