WEST END SCHOOL

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1917, Page 4

WEST END SCHOOL

ADDITIONS TO GROUND. Tlie question of considering wavs and means ot securing additional land for the West End school grounds will bo brought before a public meeting to be held in the school gymnasium this evening. Some time ago representation* were made to the Education Board to build an infants' department in connection with the school, the additions being necessary owing to the overcrowded state of the main building. It was then found that if the department'was built the limited area used for playing purposes would be too much restricted. Atrangoments were also in hand to lay an agricultural polt in the area. The need for further ground presented itself, and an offer of about an acre of land adjoining the sehoolgroimd was received. The price asked wa» Jul'2oo. The -School Committee and Education Board considered this -was a reasonable oiler, and representations were made to the Education Department for a graut. Only iiiul) was offered by the Department, and as the Education Board has no means of making up the difference, a deadlock was reached. The Mayor (Mr, C, H. Burgess) local members of Parliament, and members of the Education Board have been invited to to-night's meeting, and the whole question will be discussed with a view to bringing influence to bear on the Department to increase the offered grant to cover the cost of purchasing the additional ground.