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to group the schools in question for a period of three years under
a Committee consisting of four Foundation Managers, one Representative
Manager appointed by the Borough Council and one by
the County Council.
no. During the year the Council has appointed several new
Managers of Provided Schools to fill vacancies caused by resignations.
Site for
Schools at
Southlields.
111. The County Council gave notice of its intention to provide
a public elementary school for about 1,100
children on land adjoining Southfield Council
School, and to acquire an additional site in the district for future
school requirements. This Council pointed out that when the site
of the existing school was acquired it was the intention of the late
School Board to retain the land not required for the present building
as a recreation ground for the children attending the schools
in the neighbourhood, and that the West Hill School had not been
completed in accordance with the proposals of the School Board.
The Council suggested that the West Hill School should be completed
and a school provided on a site to be acquired in the
locality of Wimbledon Park Road, and that the land adjoining the
Southfield School should be retained as a recreation ground. In
reply the Education Committee of the County Council stated that
the Board of Education had hitherto declined to sanction the completion
of the West Hill School; that there would be need for at
least 2,000 additional school places, and that under all the circumstances
they were not prepared to recommend the County Council
to depart from its decision to erect a school on the land adjoining
the Southfield School and to secure an additional site in the
neighbourhood. The views of this Council were then communicated
to the Board of Education and they were asked to receive a
deputation from this Council on the subject. The Board of Education,
however, gave their formal consent to the proposal of the
County Council and stated that having carefully reviewed the correspondence
between the Borough Council, the County Council,
and the Board on the subject they were not prepared to re-open
the question of building a school on the Southfields site, and were
unable to see that any useful purpose would be served by receiving
the proposed deputation. The subject is still under the consideration
of the Council.
112. The Council has had under consideration the subject of
the delay in dealing with matters arising out of the