DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS Assembly Halls Wanted

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28541, 21 March 1958, Page 12

DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS Assembly Halls Wanted

(From Our Own Reporter) TIMARU, March 20.

The Dominion Federation of School Committees’ Association decided at its conference today to press for assembly halls for district high schools to bring them into line with post-primary and intermediate schools.

The Canterbury remit, which was passed, asked that permanent district high schools with secondary rolls of 120 pupils or more should be provided with assembly halls.

Supporting the remit, the president (Mr V. W. Wilson) said the provision of assembly halls for district high schools was a matter of principle. “If it is good enough foi intermediate schools to have assembly halls—and they have got them,” he said, “then as district high schools are of a higher status, they should have them, too.”

Replying to a suggestion that folding doors between two classrooms would provide assembly halls for these schools, Mr Greenwood (Canterbury) said that that had been done at Shirley Intermediate School, where folding doors had divided an arts and crafts room and a music room to provide an assembly hall. Mr Greenwood said that expedient had not proved satisfactory, as children in one of the rooms had not been able to hear what was said in the other. For that reason he would not support the suggestion.