KINDERGARTEN ASSOCIATION

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26121, 25 May 1950, Page 2

KINDERGARTEN ASSOCIATION

SECTION BOUGHT IN RICCARTON

A welcome was extended to all new members and delegates from the affiliated committees of Risingholme. Cashmere. Upper Riccarton, Pitcairn crescent. Ham road, Kaiapoi. and Somerfield, by the president (Mrs A. Keith Hadfield), who presided at the first monthly meeting of the newly elected council of the Christchurch Free Kindergarten Association yesterday. During the month a section had been purchased for £5OO in Rattray street, Riccarton, for a new kindergarten, Mrs Hadfield reported. The section adjoined one which had been set aside by the Riccarton Borough Council for a kindergarten. Together the sections would make a suitable block of land on which the new kindergarten would be erected.

Mrs Hadfield also said that the Government had agreed to subsidise the purchase of the Manse site, on Lincoln road, adjoining the Kindergarten Training College. The purchase, she said, would not be completed until next year when the association looked forward to the establishment there of a model kindergarten which would be a valuable observation centre for student trainees. The need to raise an increasing amount of money to cover the growing costs of kindergarten work in Christchurch was also emphasised by Mrs Hadfield. She said that work oh the building of a new kindergarten in Woolston had already started. The principal, Miss R. Wilkie, reported that attendances for the second term in all kindergartens were satisfactory. Miss Wilkie expressed the hope that the Education Department would come to some decision soon on the alterations to the proposed training college at Hillmorten, as existing training facilities and conditions for staff and students were far from satisfactory.