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the contractor, and was instructed by the Board to inform said contractor he would not be paid unless he satisfied the architect;

(b) Tender of $1357 was accepted for installing sewerage in Prince Street School. '

(7) Nevember 12, 1900 - Vaccination of pupils was to be enforced the next summer (1901) - Therefore, it has now been in effect for 60 years.

(8) January 7, 1901 — Principal Seaman recommended that a school of Domestic Science be provided.

March 7, 1910 — Principal Seaman urged Domestic Science be taken into consideration when estimates were being prepared. Two years earlier he and another gentleman had presented a petition re Domestic Science signed by 660 taxpayers. This the Board had handed to City Council.

February, 1917 ~ Domestic Science classes were becun in Kindergarten Hall. After some years these classes were discontinued, but were set up again about 1939 in other quarters.

(9) February 2, 1915 — Principal Seaman urged a "Visitors flax" be authorized in all schools for each term. Approved.

(10) May 3. 1915 - W to be painted.— at a cost of $400. Previously it had been kalsomined. Ten years after the school was built all the rooms; except the basement, had been whitewashed for $39l

(11) May 6, 1918 — Principal Seaman reported that fifty Sirls’from Prince Street School were prepared to enter the in the garden at Victoria Park. Expense tO be borne by the pupils. This was a war effort for which land

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had been set aside the year before. Incidentally we still have