CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 22 June 1923, Page 7

CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS.

AN AMERICAN IDEA.

ADVOCATED BY MR, T. U. WELLS, i (From Our Own Correspondent.) OTOROHANGA, this <lay. In furtherance of the establishment of consolidated schools, Mr. T. V. Wells, of Auckland, addressed a public meeting and a subsequent meeting of school committees here yesterday. The present. Otorohanga School building accommodates 200 pupils, and is an old native school building. The Auckland Education Board recently acquired a site of six acres at. Otorohangu, and, it is understood, has placed the. new school on the list of urgent works. The local committee's proposal is that half-a-dozen country schools within six , or eight miles of Otorohanga should be. | consolidated, and Mr. Wells has pro- i mised to address parents at these centres at a later date. If the various school committees prove agreeable a school of 400 pupils could be established, as soon as the building is erected, and the necessary motor omnibuses are provided. "The roads covering these proposed districts are all metalled, and later, if other districts desire to come into the scheme, some 12 or 14 schools could be consolidated in one large central school, where a high and a technical department could he added. At present senior children have to travel to Te Kuiti, Te Awamutu, or Hamilton for secondary education.