COLLEGE STREET SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 194, 18 May 1928, Page 6

COLLEGE STREET SCHOOL

“PASSED PERIOD OF USEFULNESS”

Palmerston North, May 17.

Observing that he could not say anything too bad about College Street School, Mr. AV. F. Cutler moved at a meeting of the Palmerston North School Committees’ Association last night, “That in the opinion of this association the College Street School has passed its period of usefulness, and that -the attention of the Department be directed to the matter.” The motion received sympathy from the meeting, but the chairman of the College Street School Committee (Mr. S. AV. Olllver) urged patience. Mr. Cutler and he, he stated, were not -in agreement as to what action should be taken, for the board’s architect had told him that it was no use passing any motions of protest. The board was quite in sympathy with the College Street committee, and he had been advised to press for a new infant school. The board was not doing much in the way of repairs to the present building. The only way to gain their end, contended 'Mr. Cutler, was to keep pressing. After further discussion the following motion was carried: — “That this meeting, being well ‘ acquainted with the present dilapidated state of the College Street school, and realising that it is unfit for the teaching of pupils, place before the AVanganui Education Board the urgent necessity of new buildings for the school.” The urgency of the matter was mentioned by Mr. Oliver also at the opening of the Milson School yesterday afternoon, when he said that he considered College Street School the worst in Palmerston, and stressed the need for a new building.