NEW SCHOOL.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 303, 23 December 1929, Page 3

NEW SCHOOL.

BUILDING AT OTAHUHU. EIGHT CLASS BOOMS. PLANS BEIXG PREPARED. Plane and specifications for a post primary ecliool at Otahuliu are being prepared by the Auckland Education Board, which has been advised by the Minister of Education (Hon. H. Atniore) that Cabinet has approved of a grant for the new institution. Tenders for the erection of the building will be called at an cany date. The school will consist of eight rooms, and be built on an admirable eit-e of eleven acres,, which has a frontage of 415 feet to Mangere Road. Tie land was purchased by the board some twelve months ago, and will require little expenditure to put in order as it is for the most part level. ~ "" " The school will be built in permanent material, and the class rooms will be spacious and of the semi-open air type. The building will embody many improvements in school construction, and possess features of design which are recognised as being necessary to producing the best results from both scholars and teachers. Asked this morning if it was possible that provision for agricultural instruction would be made at the new institution in accordance with a scheme that has been mooted, the chairman of the board (Mr. A. Burns) stated that ae the Education Committee, set up by the Government, which recently sat in Auckland, had not yet submitted its report, it was not known what form the instruction would take. A secondary school at Otahuhu, however, was required in addition to the present district school, and it might combine both secondary and primary training.