SUNSHINE IN SCHOOLS
Cashmere Plan Satisfactory New Zealanders were reputed to orientate their homes and schools to the sun and then spend a small fortune buying expensive blinds to keen the sunshine out. Had the problem arisen at the Cashmere High School, Mr Duncan Mackay asked at a meeting of the board of governors. The Christchurch Post-primary Schools’ Council had lately had complaints about oppressive sunshine in some unscreened rooms of new high schools, Mr Mackey said. . Cashmere seemed fortunate, said the headmaster (Mr T. H. McCombs), Overhangs had apparently been very well calculated. At midday in summer, the sun fell on only an 18in strip of floor in most rooms, yet In winter the sun shone right across, halving heating require-
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29228, 11 June 1960, Page 4
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