TECHNICAL SCHOOL

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 244, 15 November 1929, Page 8

TECHNICAL SCHOOL

BOARD OF GOYERNORS MEET. THE DELAY WITH' THE PLANS. | Tbe moiitlily meting of tlie Napier Techuical College Board was beld yesterday alternoon, Mr T. W. Bear presifling over Messrs A. G. Pallot, H. Pottle. C-. I-assen. H. J. Harinau, T. ■McCartliy, G. Cooke, J. C. Thomson, R. C. Wright and Mrs R. C. AYright. . Tbe principal reported that tlie aver,age roll was 25(5, tlie average attendanee being 95.7 per cent. Tlie s]xnts were lieb] 011 OcLober 18 and six records broken. Mnnday, November 11, saw tlie close of tbe evcn- ■ ing elasses, tbe attenclanee. eoiiduet and work during tbe year being very isat isfactory. Parents' dav would be beld in Defomber, dnring whieli monfh also tbe 'operetta, "Kristine" would be produced. Witb regard to tbe scbool examinn,tions over 30 eaVididates were to sit *for tbe Publie Service entrance and Senior Free Place examinations. Iu conneetion witli tbe new college building. M'r IT. Poi ile stated tbat be. bad seen IMr W. E. Barnard, who stated tbat tbe delay bad been eauscd bv tbe plaiis being eonsidered and finnlised by an exnert on tbe subiert of earthquakes, with a. view to assuring tbat tbe building would witbstand 'anv sboeks likely to oce,ur after its eompletion. Tt was stated. bowevor. tbat ihe plnns would be eonmleted before Chri-sf-nas »nd tbat tenders would probnbly lie called Lefnm Cbristnias also.