MILFORD SCHOOL’S NEEDS
NO ENLARGEMENT JUSTIFIED APPLICATION REFUSED The Minister o£ Education, the I-lon. H. Atmore, has again refused the application of the Milford School Committee lor a larger building and the raising of its status to a main school. The Minister considers the present four-roomed building quite large enough for the number of pupils offering. All above Standard 111. have to go to Takapuna School, two miles away. The committee will present its case at a meeting of householders shortly. Takapuna main school has recently been renovated and painted, and through a Government subsidy, the Alilford school grounds have been asphalted. A sum of £35, proceeds of a school concert, is to be spent on tennis courts, and in the purchase of books and gramophone records. A referendum on Bible in schools is to be taken on the application of four ministers
The reports of the headmasters show a slight decline in atendances, attributable partly to the opening of a school by the Roman Catholic Church authorities.
Messrs. J R. Penning and G. C. Alalcolm have been appointed Takapuna representatives on the Auckland Primary Schools’ Association. d
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 14
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188MILFORD SCHOOL’S NEEDS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 14
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