HOUSEHOLDERS MEET

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 69, 23 April 1929, Page 7

HOUSEHOLDERS MEET

ELECTION OF SCHOOL COAL A1ITTEES. AIEETINGS THROFGHOUT DISTRICT. Tn all tho various school districts tliroughout Hawke's Bay meetinags of householders were held last evening, the attendances in all cases being most satisfactory. PAKOWHAI SCIIOOL. The annual meeting of householders was held in the Pakowhai Schoolhouse last night. The room was filled, the recent trouble over the shelter belt being no doubt respon.sible i'or suclt a representative meeting. Alr T. L. Stanford was voted to the cliair. The wliol© cas© concerning the trecs was reviewetl by Alr Holmes, who pointed out that tlie outgoing committee had consistently opposed their renioval, and vet, in spite of every j protest, the board, without even view- j ing the tiees, infonned the committee I that they would cut them down. i Owing to leakage oi' the committee 's ! transactions, a local contractor, after offering tlie committee £lo for tlie trees, oftercd the hoard's secretarv £10, ! and this was iinrnediatoly accepted. A school committee had therefore 'no status. Tho property was vestod in the board. It was unanimouslv agreed to adopt oonciliatory methods with tlie contractor, and a suh-committee, with Alexsrs Brunton, AVishart, Stanford and Tattersall as memhers, was appointed to interview him, and, if unsuccessful, a strongly-worded protest be forwarded t~> the hoard and the Alinister of Education. AVhy the hoard ,caiinot cancel the eontract and let tlio contractor sue for damages, which would he infinitesinia] on a £10 contract, is a puzzle. Thcse trees were planted by old scliool pupils as a shelter belt, and they well roniemhor what a cold spot the gvounds were in southerly weather. The meeting finally resolved to resist to the utinost any attempt to intcrfei'o with the trees. The following were elected memhers of the new committee, several memhers of tlie old being so disgusted with the methods of tho hoard that they refused to sook rc-electiou : — Alossrs T. E. Stanford, A. F. Porkins, John llarris, S. Pederson. II. Russell. iSuhsequcntly Alr A. F. Porkins was ■ elected ehairinan and Alr T. E. Stanford secretarv.