There is an urgent need for this area to be covered, and the Parent Teachers Association had been told that the Old Scholars Association had a drawing and was preparing to have this work done.

However, and Thursday Nov. 21st I spoke with Mr. Roosevelt King the president of this association, and he gave me to understand that the association does not have any drawing for this neither do they have the money to do this.  He said that they had concentrated on the purchasing of musical instruments for the band and that he had received considerable assistance from Mr. Peter Simonds in the UK.

It is therefore a project that the PTA should consider carrying out.

Motion: That the said bus shelter should be designed and an estimate of the cost for building it  brought to the Executive Committee for approval. Work to proceed immediately.

Incredible as it may seem, the Lodge School students must carry all of their books with them all of the time as there is no facility for securing these books which are the property of the Government.

I believe that the PTA should recognize this as a priority.  To start with, we need to survey each classroom for the number of desks that could have hasps installed, and this would then tell us how many lockers needed to be made available.  We could compare the cost of lockers with the cost of supplying student desks, which could carry locks.

Motion: The PTA has noted that there is no facility for the securing of student’s books and other materials, and acknowledges this to be an unsatisfactory situation. Having received the Administration’s concurrence, the PTA should hire a carpenter and purchase the hasps, which will be installed on all existing desks that can carry a hasp. Further the PTA agrees to investigate the cost of installing lockers and/or lockable desks for the remaining students. Work to proceed immediately and to be paid for out of the PTA’s existing funds.

Construction Of Exercise Room

We have been fortunate in that Mr.Bizzy Williams has agreed to stand a substantial part of this and has recommended an old Lodge boy Harold Skeete to do the drawings with any cost. Mr. Skeete has since done the drawings and has been in contact with Mr. Browne. It is now planned to refurbish and strengthen an old section to the north of the pavilion. This is currently a dangerously dilapidated changing room and we will build a second floor on to this for the exercise room. We look forward to this building proceeding thanks to Mr. Williams at Structural Systems.