It is satisfactory that final decision on the proposal further to postpone provision of the much-needed assem~ bly hall at the Tifeng Rd. Boys' School has not been reached. The Education Board has had apparently to accept the view that the expenditure of! '40.000 on the construction of a hall as devised by plans prepared by the Public Works Department could not be pressed in the present financial state of the Council's affairs. Inquiry being departmentally made to ascertain whether a compromise can~ not be effected, so that a vital need may be met at less cost within an appreciable time instead of Doing @eferred to the Greek Kalends. It is greatly to be hoped that firm Insist-fence on some solution of this kind be maintained. 'The Education Board is under no' delusions regarding the urgency of Tifeng Ra's modest requirements. The mere statement that the proposal for supplying the missing hall Is two years old and ha therefore been thrice brushed aside by the pressure of retrenchment Is suf-lent to show that the Board has been alive to the obligations of the Counelt in this matter. The situation has" been radically changed in the last few days for the Council has now received gratifying proof of the lively interest taken in lis schoo! by a large body of residents in the neighbourhood concerned. Fortified by this unusual expression of intelli. fent opinion the Council has every encouragement to review the category which the proposal has been placed. Conceivably it might decide {o rate Tifeng Ra's missing amenities for recreation, physical culture and healthy exercise as belonging to that class of expenditure which cannot allowed to bow even to the depression.
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