SCHOOLS BENEFIT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 284, 30 November 1944, Page 6

SCHOOLS BENEFIT

CAMP DEMOLITIONS

STUDENT TEACHERS' HOSTEL Several schools in and about Auckland will benefit as the result of the demolition of former military camps located on city reserves and recreation areas. Assembly halls and additional classrooms will be provided from buildings of various types now forming part of camps. The camp in the Inner Domain— the cricket ground—will provide a number of buildings to form part of the proposed Balmoral Intermediate School. The canteen and recreation j building will become an assembly hall for the school, while from the barracks block will be gained three classrooms, and rooms for woodwork, metalwork, cookery, dressmaking, a laundry and a model Hat. Technical Accommodation The Otahuhu Technical High School will gain six classrooms, and, in addition, rooms for geography, music and arts and crafts. These rooms will be obtained from the demolition of the Victoria Park •camp. The canteen and recreation rooms from the same camp will provide an assembly hall at the school. Both the Inner Domain and Victoria Park will provide additional accommodation at Takapuna Grammar School, where the need for technical rooms will become urgent next year. This school will gain three classrooms and machinery, arts, drawing, cooking, dressmaking and laundry rooms. For the Pasadena Intermediate School an assembly hall, activities, metalwork, arts and crafts and dressmaking rooms will be provided from buildings taken from the Inner Domain. A portion of the mess hall at Victoria Park will make an assembly hall for the Kowhai Intermediate School. When the Outer Domain camp (Camp Hale) is finally demolished it will provide an assembly hall and metalwork, activities and crafts rooms for the Manukau Intermediate School, as well as two additional art rooms for the Elam School of Art.

Training College Addition One of the most important gains as the results of camp demolitions will be the provision of hostel accommodation for Auckland Teachers' Training College Students. The chief petty officers' dormitory block, from the Inner Domain, complete with social rooms and lavatory block, will be transferred to the college grounds to serve as a hostel for fifty men students. For a similar number of women students accommodation ii being provided at the former Mobile 6 Hospital at Avondale, in two buildings that were previously used as nurses' quarters. Transport to and from the Training College is expected to be made available until permanent accommodation can be provided for the students nearer to the college.