Waimate High School Board.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 148, 11 May 1901, Page 2

Waimate High School Board.

On Thursday evening-a special meeting of tl;o above Board was held in theCourthouse, the Rev. George Barclay ■ in the chair ,nd there being aßq present Messrs G. Manchester, Howell, Smdholme, CoUmaa and tlio Rev. McKenzie Gibson. Correspondence from the M ickenzie County Council was submitted suggesting the sale of the Board’s propei ty at Albury. and giving certain information as to the proceedings of the Commissioners in respect to laud- held', by them. It was pointed out that, as the result of a sale held bj’ the commissioners some time ago, some thirty-four acr. a were disposed oi, fetching the sum of £153, or an average of about £4 I2a an acre. The Chairman, quoting from the High School Reserves Aco, It-JO, and the Land Act of 1392, showed that the land couid be sold and what, in the evt-nt of a desire to sell, would be tho procedure. H.c also remind id the Board that leases of building sites couid be granted for a term of fifty years. As the outcome of the discussion, it was feared that there would be no adequate competition ; that the sections, or tho m tjor part of them, - would be a lung time on their hands ; _thnt any profits of sale would not largely exceed the present rental ; that in the meantime there was ample - >’oom fer the occupation a.ul expulsion of the township within the thirty four acres recently sold- by the School Commissioners, and th it, on the whole, it was not exp Riant at the present time to part with the Board’sproperty at Aibnry. The Chairman threw out the suggestion that, seeing its laudable interest iii this matter, the Coumy Council itself might deem it desirable to makq them an offer for the property in question/ some sixteen acres in the very heart of the proposed ttyfyS ship. : '