PARNELL SCHOOL SITE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1922, Page 11

PARNELL SCHOOL SITE.

BOARDS FRUITLESS SEARCH. When the Education Board failed to ,get the Anglican Trust Board to give it my of the Native School sites at the corner of St. Stephen's Avenue and Gladstone Road for a new State school, it found out that the Trust Board owned four acres further down Gladstone Road, now leased for a, term to a private person who lives there. The Education Board asked the Trust Board to convey this site to it, but the Trust Board declined. When the Trust Board's letter was read yesterday at the Education Board's meeting Mr. E. C. Banks said they had some moral right to the land for the education of "white children. Mr. A. Burns said that unfortunately the Trust Board owned the only possible sites in Parnell. He pointed out that the four-acre site, which was next the Native School, was not used for school purposes like the site the board first asked for, but was used merely for revenue purposes. Mr. S. C. Smith suggested that the Trust Board would probably sell or lease the site. If it would not do that then it might be taken under the Public Works Act. After further discussion it was decided that the Trust Board be asked if it was willing to sell the land, and on what terms. The board further decided to bring the matter under the notice of the Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) during a conference that is to take place to-morrow.