AKAROA SCHOOL

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33290, 30 July 1973, Page 5

AKAROA SCHOOL

Request on l design The Education Department should confer with the council or the Akaroa Civic Trust so that appropriate designs were chosen for new buildings for the Akaroa Primary School, said the chairman (Mr G. P. A. de Latour), at a meeting of the Akaroa .County Council. State school buildings, he said, were like State houses —functional inside, but not very attractive as buildings. There had been a lot of criticism throughout New Zealand of the design of State buildings. "It’s been said it is time I for a change,” said Mr del Latour. "I am also aware of | the problem that we will run I up against.” The State should set an i example in design, said Mr W. A. Habgood. representing the Akaroa County Town! Committee. Mr de Latour said it was; encouraging to see the way' the public had co-operated with the Akaroa environmental plan, which sought to set harmonious building designs for the town. The council agreed to bring the matter to the notice of the department, which intends to rebuild.

!For the Archives Papers of the former Minister of the Environment, Mr Duncan Maclntyre, have been acquired by the National Archives, according to the annual report of the Internal Affairs Department tabled in Parliament. Mr Maclntyre lost his Hastings seat at the General Election. There have also been some further small additions to the papers of the former Labour Prime Minister, the late Sir Walter Nash.—(PA.)