WEST END SCHOOL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1918, Page 6

WEST END SCHOOL.

CONFERENCE BETWEEN COUNCIL AND EDUCATION BOARD.

I The members of the Taranaki Education Board waited on the New Plymouth Borough Council on Wednesday night to further press their request for au exchange of properties by the two bodies as between the site of the West End .School and a portion of the reserve on Tukapa and Outfield roads, for the purposes of the erection of an up-to-date school on the latter property- The chairman of the board (Mr R. Masters), .who was chief spokesman for the deputation, said that a lead had been given the council by the action of Stratford and Hawera municipal councils in granting land within their boundaries for educational purposes. He suggested that perhaps the same course might ibe followed as at Hawera, where a.time limit had 'been fixed in which a school on the exchanged site should be built.

Mr. Masters was supported by Messrs C. A. Wilkinson, MP., S. G. Smith, H. Trimble, and P. J. White, all of wham urged that the matter should ibe looked upon with as wide an outlook as possible, and also that the matter wag really in the interests of and to the adThe matter was discussed between the vantage of the borough.

two bodies, and the Mayor assured the deputation that the question would receive tho careful consideration of the council, and he hoped it would be possible to give it favorable consideration. 'Mr- Masters thanked the council for the manner in which the deputation had jbeen- received, and tile members of the [board' <t/hen withdrew..