The Akaroa Mail FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1935. NEW SECONDARY SCHOOL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LVI, Issue 5991, 3 May 1935, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1935. NEW SECONDARY SCHOOL

The residents off Altar o a and Baulks EPeminsuilla should receive the intimiation o ; f the Ho.ni. iS. G. Smith, Minister of Education, 'thiaita he will recommend 'Galbiinet. t;o erect a neiw secondary schooll ait Akaroa for the beneifit of Uaniksi 'Peninsula, with thanks, as when erected' on. the new isitei in. Joffie street oni a flat section of ground) df nearly three acres it -shouid profvid'e a splendid school fk>r their .children fori years to come'. The whale 'Bemimsul'ai wa® certainly behind 1 the request, to the Minister for a new school audi he 1 readily acquiesed in seeing that the present schoc'i, without any playing area, was a lbig handicap. tot the district. The High (School' Board will! have to pay their income into the Canterbury Education Board', tout if 'the neiw ,school! is provided then there is no object for retaining the funds, neither have the Board legal! right to .doi so. Two matters' must be considered in connection with the new school. The oine is that the preparation of •the grounds! to make them suitable as playing areas for the children is a 'big undertaking, .and the Education .(Department shiouldl foe asiked for I some .suibstanti'aL assistance towards achieving this object,. The site is one wbichl 'Cia.ni be developed into l a very finely equipped 1 ground awd if the! district supports the school committee they will' be 'alble to maike model grounds there. Another p'oiimt i)s> the .assistance which the outer (Bays requim These people cannot) get the benelfit oi a bu,s service and thus miss the capu'•tati'o.n grant, and their children have to .board l at Aikaroa. If the Department can be induced to pay capitation or traveling allio*w.ance to any pupills in the Eastern Bays,, who Aboard in Akaraa, it •will be 'a greater | inducement to them to use the iisicihool l and p'os'si'bly with the assistj an'ce o!f the Education Board the 'present 'difficulty can tbe oveircome. IThe fact, that there is every poshibil.'iity that the neiw school will be •built shoulld bring* the necessity home to ia® Peminsullai resident® to use the school'. ISeoondary education is all imtportiant these days and with the site .noiw .available there is no reason why a useful) agricultural!, course cannot 'be provided. Thfe has* mad€ •the 'Rtagiloira school 1 such a valuable 5 I unit 'in the educational scheme and J Banks Peninsula, shoul'd 1 follow .their I example. By doing this the new school 'would probably attract pupite fnom outside the. district, while the " climatic advantages of Aikaroa will

I very probably attract people ia Cbrisfcchiurich fco sendi :thei<r chiildrei to : A'karoa to -attend the school,.