THE ACCOMMODATION DIFFICULTY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13428, 15 April 1944, Page 2

THE ACCOMMODATION DIFFICULTY

TAURANGA DISTR Ir , high school 1

Reports to Household^

Endeavours to m Prefabricated Clasij

Elicits ore being made t„ . a prefabricated classroom ° bUl ‘ overcome the acco,„„, 0(la '° H lem at the Tauranga School, according to an 1 Hl !t mem made at the blcniu.!"" o ""''' of householders. neel >nj

References to the accnm,, . difficulties were made i n the* 0^0 * of both, the chairman, of committee (Mr A. C. R j P 01(1 and the headmaster Southey). * C-

The chairman stated in his port that the old main bulldi„ vealiy beyond doing an, tW " and tvonid be a source ot an..,, „ until the new school was ’ Hillsdene. The only alternative Z to make the building as habitable a ? possible in the meantime. Owing [ the very large increase in the roll number in the secondary department it had been necessary to seek ac commodation elsewhere. g 0 the committee had been able to ar ! range accommodation for 35 p up n s They yet required accommodation for a high school class. An endeavour had been made to get an array hut of the mess room type about 25ft by 40ft. The Auckland Education Board had its acquisition under consideration and the coramittee was hopeful that this would overcome the difficulty that was being experienced by both staff and pupils.

During the past few years, deputations had waited on Ministers, urging the necessity of pushing on with the erection of the new intermediate high school at Hillsdene and he was glad to say that advice had been received from the Commissioner of Works that when tenders were received, labour and material would be made available, Tenders had been called, and one tender had been sent to the Education Department, Wellington, by the Education Board, for authority to accept.

When the Hillsdene school was erected it would solve the problem of accommodation that had been a trying ordeal for the staff and pupils as well as an anxiety for the successive school committees.

He thought that in fairness to the Government one should say that the war had a lot to do with the delay in the past.

During his brief visit to Wellington, he was, through the good °i fices of Mr ,F. M. Doidge, M.P., en ' abled to make contact with the Minister for Education (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason) and heads of the departments ha'ndling school hull ings. He met sympathetic cons' ■ eration from all, and left with » strong feeling that the -building ® the new Tauranga Intermedia High School would be declare - 1 “essential” work when it came fore Cabinet. This appeared to the crucial point on which _ everything in connection wi commencement of the woik. It was reported by the Re ', _ O. Gibson that since the c had completed his iepol ’ 0 t had been received from a member of the Auckla " d Jlebl . tion Board, that the boai tect was not in favour 9 hut on the grounds that i , a nine-feet stud. APrJJ f building was suggested a 0 f plication had been made these

these ' t head*' 11 " In his repoit, the e it said the modern bul,dl " g ‘ jon 0 f good order, but the con gs jvelf old ones had become P worse. The increased ' tme nt * in the secondary dcp ® * go*** caused serious oveicio' g 0 ba* 3 times the conditions * jß , p or that adequate teaching ff£ . sible. Owing to specif {i r ondary classes could n t j,n from the main ,)U1 C ’ „ d could be done "'as to ojnS for classes, thus setting ffay s tbl secondary use. In 01 he was most undesirable » n that army hots 01 , rooms would be P‘°