SCHOOL RESIDENCES

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 18 September 1937, Page 21

SCHOOL RESIDENCES

BOARD'S DESIRE FOR REBUILDING That grants were urgently needed for rebuilding many school residences in Canterbury was claimed by Mr C. S. Thompson at the meeting of the Canterbury Education Board yesterday. * Mr J. W. Preen presided. The conditions under which the headmasters of some schools in the district had to live were altogether unsatisfactory, said Mr Thompson. He moved: "That this board enters an emphatic protest at the delay in rebuilding teachers' residences, more especially those which have been condemned by the authorities as unfit for occupation and which have to be used because no other house is available. The board now asks that grants be made immediately for new residences as set out in the board's list of urgent works." Mr Thompson added that as a setoff to the position about school residences was the willingness of the Government to improve school grounds, which the board had been urging for so long. Mr W. P. Spencer said that the Government was doing a great deal about the building of houses, and the money was available for local bodies for this purpose at a low rate of interest. If the board, although not a local body, approached the department for a loan to build houses, it would probably get it. Mr Thompson's motion was carried.