OPENING OF SCHOOL
The new Diamond Harbour school which is the first of its design in the South Island, will be opened by the chairman of the Canterbury Education Board (Mr A. S. Murray) on Wednesday. Other speakers will include the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Kirk) and the Mayor of Lyttelton (Mr J. B. Collett). The school’s three classrooms have a lower ceiling than in previous standard designs, and have exposed rafters. There is provision for an extra classroom on the block and for an additional block of four rooms. Pupils occupied the building on July 28 and a swimming pool has been built in the last month. The school’s roll is 85. The new building replaces one transferred from Chorlton, Banks Peninsula, in 1945 when the roll became insufficient to justify the school’s existence. It reopened at Diamond Harbour with 16 pupils.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32117, 13 October 1969, Page 12
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