LIKE A FORTRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 11, 13 January 1934, Page 16

LIKE A FORTRESS.

NEW GISBOENE SCHOOL. The Gisborne Central School will have one of the safest buildings in New Zealand when the present strengthening work is completed. "It ie like a fortress," said the chairman of the school committee, Mr. J. H. Sunderland, to a "Poverty Bay Herald" reporter. He said it was amazing how strong the building was being made, the great amount of steel and concrete being put into the building giving the structure a wonderful resistance to earthquake shock. The committee, he added, was more than satisfied with what was being done. In order to reassure parents, it has been decided to invite them to inspect the building between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. during the next few daye before the mass of steel is covered by concrete. The work was instituted as a result of strong protests made by the school committee, backed up by the Hawke's Bay Education Board, regarding the unsafe condition the building was left in after , the earthquake of September IG, 1D32. The committee then was extremely dissatisfied with the attitude of the Education Department, but it is now more than satisfied with the strengthening work being carried out by Messrs. Howell and King to plans prepared by the Public Works Department.