ASSEMBLY HALL WANTED.
TAKAPTJNA GRAMMAR SCHOOL
NEEDS OF THE PUPILS.. In an effort to raise funds for an assembly hall at the Takapuna Grammar School, a sale of work will be held in the school grounds to-morrow and on Friday.
A few facts showing the need for a hall, and explaining the importance of the school to the community, were brought before the notice of the parents in the district in a circular from the executive of a committee which has been set up to further the object. "If our Grammar School is to rank beside the four city schools, and to exert an influence comparable with them," states the circular, "it must have a hall worthy of the school. The pupils are at. a vital and an r ir»- •
age, where influences for good are lasting and potent. A school hall is the focus of school life, the portion of the school which bears the most sacred and lasting of school memories, and which binds the pupils with an indissoluble tie. At present the pupils of our Grainmar School must assemble in one of the corridors —surely a poor substitute for a hall.
"Physical training for both boys and girls is very incomplete in the winter term owing to the wet state of the ground and the lack of indoor accommodation, .so that the provision of a school hall would prove a great boon in this direction. The erection of a hall would be of great service in promoting a sense of fellowship in the recentlyformed Ex-pupils' Association, a body which is bound to exert a potent influence for good in the community later
"The lack of a sufficiently commodious and central hall for school concerts, lectures and displays has been acutely felt in the past, and the provision of a school hall in the grounds would be most valuable. The benefit of a school hall to the corporate life of the school is inestimable, and our Takapu'na Grammar School, cxrting the influence it does on the life of our children, should have the advantage accruing from such an addition to the school."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 196, 20 August 1930, Page 8
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354ASSEMBLY HALL WANTED. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 196, 20 August 1930, Page 8
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