NINE NEW SCHOOLS

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 12

NINE NEW SCHOOLS

Board Announces Locations The general location of nine new schools approved in this year’s building programme of the Canterbury Education Board were released yesterday. They are:— Intermediate school: Fendalton: (The known site is on back land between Ham road and Sunningvale lane, opposite Jellie Park and immediately behind the Burnside Primary School). Primary schools: (1) Dunbars road area, Halswell; (2) Lake Bryndwr area; (3) Bickerton street area, Aranui; (4) Waimairi road (tenders have been called for building on a site roughly opposite the end of Greers road); (5) Cutts road area, Upper Riccarton; (6) southern Hornby; (7> Timaru; (8) Kaiapoi. Board officers said that some of the general locations did not mean that schools would be built in the streets named. In these cases precise sites could not be released because negotiations had to be completed. The £535,000 building programme also includes the replacement of five old schools in various parts of Canterbury and Westland; additions and remodelling at 13; replacement of three manual training centres and conversion of vacant classrooms at two primary schools for manual training purposes; 16 new dental clinics; eight teachers’ houses; and a separate building in Christchurch for the board’s architectural division.

A new library and administration block for the Teachers’ College will be erected on the old Normal School site, diagonally opposite the present main entrance to the college.