ST. SAVIOUR'S SCHOOL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20045, 29 September 1930, Page 9

ST. SAVIOUR'S SCHOOL.

TRANSFER TO BOARD. Tho transfer of St. Saviour's Orphanage tschodl to tho control of the Education Board is to be finally considered at a meeting of the Orphanage authorities on Monday evening. The Department for Education has already agreed to the Canterbury Education Board taking this step, and the secretary of the Education Board stated yesterday that as soon as the Board was given a nominal lease of the building by the church authorities it would be able to take steps to appoint the required staff. Interviewed concerning the history of the school yesterday, Mr C. E, Jones said that it had been established about 12 or 13 years ago, and that before that time the children had been taught on the verandah of the home by Sister Itose, who was then in charge, and by Nurse Maude. Thev had conceived 1 the idea of building a school on the Orphanage ground, and through the generosity of Mr William Nicholls, of Belfast, who had first lent them £IOOO free of interest, and later made a bequest of £SOO to the school, the school had been made possible. It had been, he thought, tho first open-air school in Canterbury. About 40 children had then attended, and in tho course of years the numbers had grown to about IUO, while the staff had increased from one teacher and an assistant to a total of three, with Mrs Badham in charge.