NEW BRIGHTON SCHOOL.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17062, 5 February 1921, Page 12

NEW BRIGHTON SCHOOL.

DEPUTATION TO EDUCATION I BOARD. j A deputation from the New Hrighion school Committee waited on the Canterbury Education Board yesterday, to ask that M-lnwls in the district should re-rive the B:>arJ's attention. .Mr r\ Ward said that, extra ueconi-; mndaticii at the main school was a matter of pie-sing necessity. Ho produced liie tollov.iii'/ ii'.-.ures with vlw cr-idition-,: "Siuiulard 1.. i'! 3 square !>(>:. r.loiit 71 children. Standard II. ; 718 ;<ji:a;c lect. 71 chikiren: standard Hi -W ronmv i'eet. !'3 '.-hihhvi.; standard IV., ti»2 Mpiare i.'Ct. S9 cluldren : standard V., o'M squaro foot, 71 children: standard VI.. 023 square feet. "A children. On the space allowance for each pupil, the school had 87 too manv scholars. Extra temporary accommodation, he f-si-d. Mas needed at the .school fit oine. Mr -J. Tennent -;ud that the South New Brighton side « boo! was in a. lon<>jv situation', and near the Estuary. It liad been planted in a wilderness of Inoiiis and bush, where a little cfiild miVht. ea.-i!v tret lo>;. It th.e sc-hool \*cre not ix-iiioved, it should be mtftio , !:ibit-.:bl.', jw parents would not send tiieir children there at present. The school, in any case, should be- taken nearer the middle of the borough. 3lr 11. Lan»ford said that the grounds of the Nor ill Brighton K.diool needed improving. The sum of £lO v.a.s in hand, but £-'0 iu addition was needed. Mr W.«A. Bank*, a member of the Hoard, said that it was ay-reed that the South school might be ir. the centre of the district in ten year*. Mr ■Tennent remarked that the needs .of the present were more imperative than those of the future. The chairman (Mr K. H. Andrews) ssi'.l that if was evident troni the figures submitted, that temporary accommodation would have to be provided at the main school, possibly in the form of .1 marquee. I'lio position was plainly shown to be very tad. It was decided that members oi the Board should vis.it the sites of theschools duting the afternoon.