RICCARTON SCHOOL

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24960, 22 August 1946, Page 3

RICCARTON SCHOOL

EXTRA ACCOMMODATION PLANNED

TEMPORARY BUILDING IN KIRKWOOD AVENUE

(From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, August 21. To reduce overcrowding at the Riccarton, Wharenui, and Fendalton schools, the Canterbury Education Board is preparirig an application for a grant to cover the cost of providing a temporary school building on the Kirkwood avenue site, which was acquired for the erection of an intermediate school. It is intended to convert disused Army buildings into suitable classroom accommodation, which will be used ultimately as part of the intermediate school. This information was given td Mr J. T. Watts, member of Parliament for Riccarton, by the. Acting-Minister of Education (the Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer) in reply to a letter from Mr Watts.

Mr Nordmeyer said the Education Board had begun work on the removal of the Motukarara School building, and its re-erection at the Riccarton School to provide additional accommodation. It was expected that this work would be finished soon.

A petition from the Riccarton Mothers’ Club and others was presented to the House of Representatives by Mr Watts to-day. It asks the Government to take immediate steps to review the whole position of school facilities in Riccarton, and to provide adequate schools, particularly in view of its responsibility through the erection of a large number of State houses.