The following minute of the Committee is endorsed and ted by the Council, the members that the whole question will he open te disenssion at the next Annunl Meeting of!
Ratepayers The Report of the Grneral Educational Committee is submitted, and Section X, relating to the Public School, in read and considered, the Committee assuming that the Council will require proposals based thereon. regard to the last paragraph in which the Report does not recommend expendittire on re-building until the effect of the German and French Schools is felt, the Committee is informed that this wax not intended to indicate postponement longer than the end of this year. The effect of these two schools may already be gauged, and the Committee considers that the strictures upon the present building and the desirability of separate ing the boys' side from the girls' side, are problems which should be faced at once. The Chairman states that, in his opinion, the time has come to erect a new school, and he discusses the advantages presented by the site understood to be available for this purpose the south end of the present Rifle Range. Mr. Abraham maintains the view that the new school should be in the Western District, but the remainder of the Committee is unanimously opposed to this view, attention being drawn to the fact that the Report now under consideration recommends definitely that it be on the north of the Soochow Creek. After considerable further discussion, and upon the Chairman's proposal, the Committee recommends that the Council be asked for a definite allotment of a site on ti Range property, and for an appropria tion in the Budget sufficient to erect a school for the accommodation of 200 boys, the school building to be capable of expansion hereafter ta accommodate double that gumper. ranning of further ad Tam, Sir, -Your obedient servant, W. B. Lavrson, Secretary.
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