LUNCH AT SCHOOL.
A WINTER INNOVATION. APPLICATION BY STRATFORD COMMITTEE. A deputation from the Stratford School Committee consisting of Messrs. E. Smart and W. Pinkey, waited on the Education Board yesterday to ask for assistance with a view to the immediate erection of a room for the convenience of scholars attending the school who had to bring their lunch with them, and also for shelter and social purposes. Mr. Smart, who acted as spokesman, apologised for the absence of the chairman (Mr. J. W. Boon). He handed to the chairman a cheque for £3Ol 16s 7d, part of which had been voluntarily contributed towards providing means of giving the children hot cocoa with their luncheon, and the balance was the proceeds of a bazaar and concert. What the committee wanted to ask for was a £ for £ subsidy on the amount for the purpose of erecting a building on the board's property. It was estimated there would be about 400 children having lunch at the school during the coming winter. The committee wished to have some accommodation for that, and would like the hall built so that it could be in use for shelter purposes and also for social purposes. They would like the Board's architect to design and supervise the building, which they thought might be erected by the board's staff. They hoped it might be possible toj have the building completed by March.
Mr. Pinkey supported Mr. Smart, and stressed the need of immediate action. The chairman thanked the deputation for coming in and for the interest shown in school matters, and congiatulated the committee and district on the liberality with which the residents had subscribed towards school needs. He pointed out that there were difficulties in the way of getting the work done as rapidly as the deputation suggested, on account of the unlikelihood of the Department making a grant available so soon, and on account of the amount of work in hand by the board's architect and staff.
The question of going on with the work in anticipation of a subsidy was raised by the deputation, and the chairman said that if the committee was prepared to take the full financial responsibility such a course might be followed, but the Board could not guarantee the subsidy, though he did not anticipate any difficulty in the matter. He assured the deputation that the Board would do all in its power to assist the committee in its object.
The deputation thanked the Board and then withdrew.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1920, Page 6
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