FREE KINDERGARTEN

Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 175, 3 June 1955, Page 7

FREE KINDERGARTEN

Meeting Of Committee At a recent meeting of the Committee of the Taupo Free Kindergarten Association the Mayor, Mr J. E. Story, and Cr K. O. Lewis, attended and advised the Committee of the Borough Coiincirs decision to lease to the association a section in the Laughton Street Reserve, for which action the committee expressed its appreciation. y The members of the committee appointed at the inaugural public meeting were: — Mesdames C. Stevens, D. A. Richards, A. H. Kruit, C. R. Watson, B. G. Lash; Miss K. O. Lewis; Messrs E. F. Wright, F. E. M. Bostock, B. J. Baumberg, R. How, G. Marolow. Mr N. S. Lowe has now i been added to the committee. Amongst donations and offers of assistance received by the committee are the following: — Messrs R. H. Lepine and Company, to act as honorary solicitors for the association; Taupo Horticultural Society, donation of six silver birches and two red oaks; Mr K. Mayclair, donation of a number of display posters appealing for donations; a mystery parcel, given to Mrs C. Stevens, who is to raffle it for the association funds; Mrs S. A. Kent, offer to do cyclostyling for the committee The committee has appointed Mr A. L. Gabites, of Wellington, as the association's architect. In this connection, it was stressed atv the inaugural public meeting that the Government subsidies the building of free kindergartens £2 for £1, but that the work must be done by contract and under the supervision of an architect.