GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2664, 20 November 1909, Page 2

GISBORNE HIGH SCHOOL.

MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

A meeting of the Board of Governors of the Gisborne District High School was held in tlio office of the chairman, Mr. C. A. deLautour, yesterday afternoon. Present: Mr. C. A. deLautour (chairman), and Messrs J. Coleman, J. W. Bright, and E. H. Mann.

The Chairman reported that the application for a loan had been approved, which would enable the Governors to proceed with the boarding-house scheme recently under consideration. Plans of the new building were submitted by the Board’s architect, Mr. P. H. Graham, and were approved, and it was d_ecided that immediate steps be taken to get out working plans and specifications in order that the new house may be completed as early in the new year as possmlo. The boarding-house is to be two storeys high; built of brick, and of a size to accommodate twenty-six pupils, with private apartments for the Principal. Arrangements are at present being made to. prepare a scale of fees, and further information will be made public as soon as .possible. It was further decided that the boarding-house be, in the. first instance, for boys only, and that provision forboarding girls must, be, for the present, postponed. . A memorandum was submitted to the Governors fop transmission to the Education Board, suggesting h base of settlement in connection with the building shortly to he vacated by the Governors, and also as to the future control of technical education in the district, as regards the position of the two Boards.