MINUTES OF MEETING OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL HELD AT THE COUNCIL
 CHAMBER, ON THURSDAY THE 5TH OCTOBER, 1950, AT 10 A.M.

 PRESENT
His Honour W. F. COUTTS, M.B.E., Administrator, President,
The Honourable P.. C. LEWIS, Crown Attorney,
 S " .C. B. GIBBS, Acting Colonial Treasurer, ,
 O. D. BRISBANE, Nominated Member,
 S E. A. C. HUGHES, Nominated Member,
 G. A. MCINTOSH, Member for Kingstown,
 E. DUNCAN, Member for North Windward,
 E. JOACHIM, Member for Leeward,
 S. F. BONADIE, Member for South Windward.

 ABSENT
The Honourable W. A. HADLEY, Nominated Member, (Excused.)
 S. G. DEFREITAS, Member for the Grenadines.

 1. PRAYERS.
 The meeting was opened with prayer.

 2. CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES.
 The Minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the 30th March, 1950, were
taken as read and were confirmed.

 3. ANNOUNCEMENTS.
 President-: There are three matters on which I wish to touch this morning.
The first is in connection with the School Bfiilding Programme, abcut which I
think Honourable Members would like to know something.
 As far as this is concerned, you will observe that the .Kingstown Senior School
 is practically complete, :ind this is being built at a cost less than was anticipated,
 whlch means that it will be possible to continue with work on other schools.
 The Barrouallie School is also practically complete,. and las been built, on a
plan by the Executive Architect, of landcrete blocks. It looks a fairly good
building, and I hope you will be satisfied-with it. The cost estimated at 2,000
approximately, or $9,600, is surprisingly low for a building to accommodate 350
pupils, which works out at approximately $28 or just under 6 per pupil place.
This, as you know, is very much less than buildings of this nature are estimated to
cost.now, and, as far as I know, is about one half of the actual cost of construction
of buildings in other Colonies. If this type of building can be kept up, we would
be able to tackle the Rural School Building Programine for a fair number of
schools. I have asked the team which got together on this landcrete construction
to move over to Bequia to commence work on the school there, and thereafter to
tackle the Biabou school.
 In other wgrds, I propose that this team should move around in a circle from
 Barrouallie to Bequia to Biabou, and so on.