GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2397, 12 January 1909, Page 5

GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL

DISCUSSION AT THE EDUCATION BOARD.

MR, DARTON’S MOTION WITHDRAWN.

[Special to “Times.”]

_ NAPIER, Jan. 11. At the meeting/of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board to-day, Air. Darton, spea,king to his notified motion to rescind the resolution recommending the disestablishment of tlio Gisborne District High School, said -ho would not pressit as the Minister of Education had intimated tin it be could not reconsider his decision to disestablish the school. Ho commented on the fact thnt the Board’s resolution had been passed without previous notice to members. He would like the Board to go into the question of the position of the Gisborne School Committee in the matter. There was the question of the two organisations, the Gisborne School and the Gisborne High School. Unless the High School was conducted in a separate building, there would he feared be friction .between the two staffs in spite of every care. The Chairman (Sir William Russell) said that High School Governors had expended £IOOO received from the Government on the Education Board’s ground. The Governors obtained permission from the Board to do that, but that meant nothing. It would bo inequitable to kick tlie Governors out without giving them hack their money in some way or other, hut the question wins how was it to be done. Mr. Darton said the Governors were going to put a new building on a section in a more suitable locality for a High School. Air. Darton was given leave to withdrew his motion.

The .Chairman -was requested to enter into communication with the Governors of the Gisborne High School with la view to the Governors obtaining separate premises in which to conduct their school.