PARENTS’ GIFT TO SCHOOL
LUNCH ROOM FOR BOYS The £3090 lunch-room building above the Deans’s stables at the Christchurch Boys’ High School was formally handed over to the Board bl Managers yesterday by the ParentTeacher Association. The association provided more than half the cost, and the rest was received in Government subsidy. The president of the association (Mr Gordon L. Hooper) said members were delighted to help give the school such an amenity. He thanked the designer (Mr E. G. Powell) and the builder (Mr Eric Rastrick) for their work. Accepting the building the chairman of the board (Mr C. W. Hamann) said he knew of no cliches for accepting a lunch-room for “a young gentlemen’s academy.” He therefore accepted advice “to express thanks briefly but genuinely.” The headmaster (Mr J. Leggat) de-
scribed the genesis of the project when the Parent-Teacher Association asked what addition would be most useful to the school.
Staff and parents’ representatives attended the ceremony, among the guests being Mr Maurice Guthrie, who was architect for the main school building. The school band played outside the building.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27207, 26 November 1953, Page 10
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