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NEW PLYMOUTH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL.

REBUILDING I'TXD. 4N APPEAL. Most of your readers will agree that amongst the most progressive of our local public institutions, is tlie Boys' High School. Due to the complete changes made in policy and staffing some six years ago, the school has within that time advanced by leaps and bounds, from a mixed and purely local institution with a roll of 140 boys and girls, to that of the leading provincial secondary school, with a j-01l of 270 boys and ioO girls. The boys' and girls' schools are now separate institutions, the latter in a newlyconstructed building at i'itzroy. It will be remembered that in August, 1910, the Boys' High School was almost wholly destroyed by fire, and since that date the school has been conducted under most adverse teaching conditions in the racecourse buildings, generously loaned by the Taranaki Jockey Club. As soon as possible after the fire the board had plans for a new building prepared, providing for little more than the bare necessaries of such an institution, the estimated cost of which was £12,000. After long and tedious negotiations with the Government the latter eventually voted £f>ooo towards the cost of rebuilding. This Vote with the insurance money available only enabled the board to proceed with a building costing £7200, and this is now well tinder way.

The original plans are being adhered to as far as possible, the saving being effected by eliminating the central hall, portions of two wings of class-rooms and the tower. All that is now being constructed is as many bare class-rooms as possible with the money available, baseu on the attendance at the end of 1910, when the plans were prepared. The attendance is now 40 greater than it was then.. It is regarded as a prime essential in such a school that there must be an assembly hall if the boys are to receive that all-round physical and moral training their parents expect the school to provide. 11l this case the hall is required not only for general assembly purposes, but also in the meantime as a gymnasium, drill hall, home lesson room for boarders, etc. At present the school has no gymnasium. no suitable common room for the boys in had weather, no convenient room ivhcre the 1 20 boarders may prepare then" school work at night. Unless something is done to make goqd the deficiency the pupils, as well as the high reputation of tiie school., are going to suffer. With a view to assisting the board to provide the necessary accommodation a citizens' committee was recently formed to consider the matter, and it. was decided to endeavor to raise the amount necessary by public subscription and (Invcriiment subsidy lo complete the school according to the original plans, eliminating possibly the tower. The flovernnient was deputationised assiduously to grunt a ,C for .0 subsidy on the amount that might, be rai<ed, and the public may lie surprised to learn that the request has been refused. at least in the meantime.

Nothing daunted, the committee pmceeded with itsj preliminary canvass, with a view to measuring public sympathy and support for the project. The subscription list published below, the result of about a week's work, affords striking testimony of the district's appreciation of the school's worthiness, and recognition of, the urgent necessity of the proposed works being proceeded with. Of the t2j>o2 required to build the assembly hall (which is in the middle of the school blocl;, the class-rooms being assembled around it) the sum of .t'ii.WO (in round figures) is already promised, and the citizens' committee has authorised the board to proceed at once with the erection. The tender is the 'original one given some six months ago, when the other portions of the building were let. The price is, therefore, quite favorable one, and possibly cheaper than if tendered for now, certainly cheaper than if it had to be built later as a separate undertaking. The citizens' committee has now decided lo go on with the appeal, with a view, if possible,, to completing at least the whole of the class rooms provided under the original plans.

The committee considers that if the school is not thoroughly equipped now it may not he completed for many yeai% and that the higher education of the boys of the province, by comparison with those of other district*, is going to sull'er ill consequence. The greatest essentia! ill the equipment of the boys of the present and rising generation must be education—and ni'ore education—if they are to hold their own in the great battle of social and material evolution that must Mieceed t'.iese present days of stress. If the Government fails to realise its responsibilities to education (and it is almost as great a responsibility as the providing for the carrying on of the war —England has recognised it is so) that is all the more reason why the public of this district and province should, where they can afford it, point the way. The committee confidently appeals to the general public, to all old boys of the school, to the parents of past, present and prospective pupils throughout the province, to each do a little bit, and ensure that this provincial institution may be equipped in a manner worthy of its objects and creditable to Taranaki. Subscriptions in cash, or by arrangement to pay quarterly up to March, I!U9, may be forwarded to the office of this paper, or to any member of the citizens' committee, and wilt be duly and gratefully acknowledged. For the citizens' committee, JAS. McLEOD, Hon. Secretary.

SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DATE. £ s d

Mr. Newton Kin}? 250 1) 0 Dr. and Mrs. Walker 105 0 n Taranaki Jockey Club 100 0 0 Mr. C. H. Burgess ■ r )0 0 0 Mr. P. J. White GO 0 0 Mrs. J. Paul and family SI) 0 0 Mr. A. II. Johnstone 50 0 0 Mr. D. Hutelien 50 0 0 Taranaki Herald and Budget 5(1 0 0 Mr. P. Webster 50 0 0 Mr. T. Avery 50 0 0 Boon Bros 50 0 0 J. S. Pox (Okato) 50 0 0 Dr. Fookes 50 0 0 Taranaki Amusements (per (0. H. Saunders) 4S K 0 Taranaki Daily News 40 0 (I McLeod and Slade, Ltd 35 0 0 Red Post Co., Ltd 30 0 0 P. Whitcombe 25 0 0 W. H. Moyes '25 0 0 K. W. 1). Kobertsou 25 0 0 A. E. Sykes 25 0 0 W. Bendall 25 0 0 Melbourne Clothing Co 25 0 !) P. Lealand 25 0 0 C. C. Ward 25 0 0 jlejlringer Bros 23 0 0 j. p. Wilson 20 0 0

R. George 20 0 0 W. A. Cummin" 20 (t 0 F. W. Atkinson (Sentry Hill) 2.5 1) 0 ,R» Deare 20 0 0 iDockrill and Son 20 0 0 Gordon Fraser 0 0 >J. Morey . ■... 20 0 0 Roy and Nicholson ........ 20 0 0 E. Davies • > > • 20 0 0 J. U. Quilliam . <. ■ 20 0 0 B. R. Billing • • < 20 0 0 & Teed 20 0 0 fj. A. Nolan and Co. 15 15 0 M. Avery • ••> ■< • IS 0 0 Ambury Bros 15 0 0 Gilmonr and Clarke 15 0 0 C. Carter 12 12 0 Spcdding and tttainton > • • • 10 10 0 Smart UVos 10 10 0 Dr. 1). Blackley 10 10 0 John Avery 10 0 0 J. Hay den 10 0 0 J. McNeill 10 0 0 fr. Christie (Manaia) ........ 10 0 0 P. Bnrkliardt (Kainiata) 10 0 0

A, MeDiarmid 10 0 0 I-] M. J/ysons •.. > 10 0 0 Abbott ■ i ■ • >• >. > 10 0 0 R, Clemow 10 0 0 \Y. Hookham 10 0 0 C. G. Bottrill 10 0 0 S. W. Shaw >.. a 10 0 0 F, S. Johns 10 0 0 Stand ish and Anderson .... 10 0 0 L. C. Sladden 10 0 0 A. H. Palmer 10 0 0 •1. 8. Connett 10 0 0 W. Honevfield (Tataraimaka) 10 0 0 C. Honeyfield (Tataraimaka) in 0 0 0, Gray 10 0 0 ■1. Hawkins 10 (1 n Cook and Lister 10 0 0 W. J. Penn 10 0 n l r , 8. Butler 10 0 n W. F. Short 7 10 n L, M. Monteatli 7 10 0 Archdeacon and Mrs. Evans .. 7 7 0 H. Nicholson 5 5 0 A. S. Brooker 5 f> 0 ft. W. Garner - 5 0 0 "Socialist" i) 0 0 A. Wilson fi 0 0 L. Hoffmann Junr a 0 n W. P. Nieoll 5 0 n P. Fitzherbert 5 0 0 C, 0. Roberts !) 0 0 G. Collins 5 0 0 .1, P. Hardware r> 0 0 A. J. Morton 0 0 0 YY. C. Weston 5 0 n R Grilliths 5 0 0 F. Watson 5 0 0 J. McKean r, 0 0 Collier and Co.' r> 0 0 P. J. Flanagan r> 0 0 H. J. M. Wells 5 0 0 Arthur Avery r> 0 0 I!. Pepperill 5 0 0 J. R. Cniickshank 0 0 ■ f. Waddle f. II 0 A. S. Hassell 5 0 0 Sole Bros r, 0 n II. R. Goodaere 5 0 0 V. FTarkness 5 (1 0 I' 1 . S. Plmntree r> 0 n T. Knowles (1 0 Bayly and Dull' 5 0 0 T. Lnxton (Sentry Hill) .... r, 0 0 •M. 0. Butcher r, 0 0 Musker (L'ruti) 0 0 K. L. Humphries n 0 n A. Blair (Hawera) fi 0 n McKwi'ii Bros 0 0 1j. B. Webster r, 0 0 ('. Webster <j (1 0 F. Coleman 4 0 0 Okev and Rollo 4 0 n N'. Greiner 4 I) n Hooker Bros •1 n 0 C. N. 'lohnson :> 0 S. JT. Kebbell :i 0 W. M. Falconer ;{ (t V. .1, Hill ,-i 0 K. F. Blundell :> 0 \V. Nixon :( n A. Honnor 0 a A. W. Thomson 0 n 11. .Monteatli 10 0 G. V. Tate . .. t 9 0 It. C. Hughes :> 9, 0 V. Ilea I v . 0 9 1! Mrs. Uarcv Robertson 0 ■) n 1). Penman 9 9 0 \V. Waldock 9 ■> n (.'. M. Hill 2 2 0 E. R. Hastie 5> ?, n — O'Halloran 9, 9 0 W. 1). Webster 9 9 n b. K. liofl'mann 9 9 n "N.P." . . . :> n Denny Brown 9 2 0 1). Cameron 9 0 n J. Auld 0 1) n •J. Bennett 0 0 0 R. A. Wilson 9. 0 n A. 13. Robertson 9 0 0 .1. S. S. Medley 1 ;i <i H. K. Powling 1 I 0 A. Sliuttleworth 1 1 0 (!. W. Kwing 1 1 0 Straitliie Kwing I 1 0 T. L. H. Bates 1 1 0 T. W. Welsh 1 1 0 K. B. Bain 1 1 0 F. Honan 1 1 0 •1. Lobb 1 1 0 I f . Kbcrlett 1 0 0 "Crimo" 1 0 0 IV. Gilbert 1 0 0 If. Tline 1 0 0 A. B. Gibson 1 0 0 H. Goss 1 0 0 1). TTursthouse 1 n n It. Kllis 1 0 0 A. .1. Hastie in 0 R. Cock : .. r, 0 Mrs. Moss 5 0

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Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1918, Page 8

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NEW PLYMOUTH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1918, Page 8

NEW PLYMOUTH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1918, Page 8

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