RICCARTON H.S.
Shortage Of Rooms
Prefabricated classrooms were in “acute” short supply, the secretary of the Riccarton High School Board of Governors (Mr P. J. Halligan) told the board at its monthly meeting yesterday. An application to the Department of Education by the board last month for two prefabricated classrooms had been rejected. In its letter to the board the department said that, according to the code of accommodation under which the department worked, the school’s 40 teaching units were adequate for the estimated roll next year of 1000. The board decided to reapply for the two prefabricated buildings after the headmaster (Mr A. J. Gainsford) said that the 40 units included “special rooms” such as boys' workshops, and sewing and cooking rooms—which could not conveniently be used for ordinary subjects. “The department has given us itinerant teachers such as music teachers, but nowhere for them to teach,” said Mr Gainsford. “We may have to end up using the corridors,” he said.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31504, 19 October 1967, Page 18
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