NEED FOR REPAIRS

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33094, 8 December 1972, Page 14

NEED FOR REPAIRS

Hostel now unregistered Adams House, the hostel of Christchurch Boys’ High School, needs attention before it can be registered as a boarding house, the school’s board of governors was told yesterday. The Riccarton Borough Council has told the board that the hostel, in Harakeke Street, must be registered. The necessary improvements include an emergency lighting system, an emergency escape ladder, and an approved fire extinguisher. In a letter to the board, the Minister of Education (Mr Pickering) said that examination had showed that it would be economic and practicable to repair the Plan for observatory Two past-pupils, Andrew Mackenzie and Kevin Armon, have asked the board for permission to build an observatory at the school. The headmaster (Mr C. F. S. Caldwell) said the boys had built a telescope for the school in 1970, and they thought that if it was permanently housed in an observatory in a schoolroom it would get much greater use and there would be a vast improvement in viewing and astral photography. The board will refer the matter to the Department of Education’s architects because the boys’ plans include the removal of a piece of roof. Crests.—Mr Caldwell told the board that the school’s old boys association has tentatively obtained approval for the removal of two crests from the “old school” — the University of Canterbury. One of the crests might be placed on the new 14-room teaching block, and the other kept for the new gymnasium.