NEW PRIMARY SCHOOL IN AVONHEAD ROAD
Construction of a new primary school for Upper Riccarton began this week. The school, in Avonhead road, will have six classrooms and it is expected that it will be ready for use next year. •
The Minister of Education (Mr Skoglund) has told the member of Parliament for Riccarton (Mr A. Connelly) that the new school will relieve the Riccarton school, “which is overcrowded.” The school will also cater for the rapidly-developing residential district in the area and will considerably reduce the distance many children have had to travel to the Riccarton school. Infants The Avonhead road school, as it is being called in the meantime, will have two buildings—the first full block containing four classrooms and administration rooms; and the second halfblock two classrooms. The half-
block designed as the nucleus of an infants’ department. The initial capacity of the school will be 240 pupils. The design has been to the Education Board’s standard primary school pattern. Construction will be timber-ffame with a brick veneer. The'building contractor is Paynter and Hamilton, Ltd. <
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28701, 26 September 1958, Page 13
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