STAFFORDSHIRE
COUNTY COUNCILLOCAL
EDUCATION AUTHORITY.NOTICE
IS HEREBY GIVEN, in accordance with the provisions ofSection
13(3) of the Education Act, 1944, that the County Councilof
Staffordshire, being the Local Education Authority, propose toestablish
a new County Secondary School for about 600 childrenmainly
of the age of eleven to fifteen years at BARTON-UNDER-NEEDWOOD
in the RURAL DISTRICT of TUTBURY. The School will beavailable
for the following districts-BRANSTON,
TATENHILL, YOXALL, BARTON-UNDER-NEEDWOOD, ALREWAS,EDINGALE
AND WALTON-UPON-TRENT.The
Managers or Governors of any Voluntary School affected bythe
proposal, or any ten or more local government electors for thearea
for which it is proposed to establish the School or any localeducation
authority concerned, may submit objections to theproposal
by a letter addressed to the Secretary, Ministry ofEducation,
London, W.I, which should reach him within two monthsafter
the date of the first publication of this notice.T.
H. EVANS25th
February, 1955. Authorised Officer of theCounty
Council of Staffordshire.Section
13(1) and (3) of the Education Act, 1944, as amendedby
Section 16 of the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 19539provides
as follows:-"(1)
Where a local education authority intend -(a)
to establish a new county school;(b)
to maintain as a county school any school which at thetime
being is not such a school', or(c)
to cease to maintain any county school or, ..., voluntaryschoolthey
shall submit proposals for that purpose to the Minister.""(3)
After any proposals have been submitted to the Minister underthis
section, the authority or persons by whom the proposals weresubmitted
shall forthwith give public notice of the proposals in theprescribed
manner, and the managers or governors of any voluntaryschool
affected by the proposals or any ten or more local governmentelectors
for the area and any local education authority concernedmay
within two months after the first publication of the noticesubmit
to the Minister objections to the proposals."The
notice announcing the County Council's proposals