POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29108, 21 January 1960, Page 12

POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Building Vote All Spent

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, January 20.

The Department of Education, by the end of March, would have fully spent its allocation of £2.7 million for the 1959-60 postprimary school building programme, said Mr L. M. Graham, assistant director (administrative) of the department in Wellington today. The programme was an endeavour to keep up with the rapidly increasing post-primary school rolls- This year, and next year, would see a great increase as the "crest of the wave” of secondary school enrolments was reached.

It was hoped the programme would see all those schools which were built during the period when no assembly halls were erected, with assembly halls by the beginning of 1962. This would mean that all post-primary schools would have some sort of assembly hall. In some cases it would be only a gymnasium used as a hall. Others might still have inadequate assembly halls, but by 1962 all schools should have a hall in which to gather. The post-primary building activity for 1959-60 was greatest in Auckland and South Auckland, where rolls were increasing “at a tremendous pace,” but Wellington also gained new schools and classrooms. Two new schools, Greytown and Pahiatua, were partly completed and would be opened in February.