Crash Programme To Build Hostels
The Government had undertaken a crash programme of building to provide hostels in the cities for country secondary school children, the Minister of Education (Mr Kinsella) said yesterday.
The Minister was commenting on the plight of country people who had difficulty in obtaining reasonable accommodation for their secondary school children. The matter /as raised at a meeting of the meat and wool executive of the Federated
Farmers in Christchurch this week. Mr Kinsella said the Government aimed at building five hostels within the next five years. One had already been built at Hamilton, a second was under con: ..ruction in Marlborough, and a third was in the planning stage for Tarawera. One of the two others would be built in the King Country. The site of the other had still to be chosen. Mr Kinsella said that at the same time a programme of replacement had been drawn up for nine existing hostels. Another 17 would have to have major improvements. The shortage of hostel accommodation had been accentuated in the last seven years by a 50 per cent inc-ease in the number of children attending secondary schools.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31197, 22 October 1966, Page 1
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