NEW OFFICES TO BE ERECTED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 200, 21 May 1936, Page 13

NEW OFFICES TO BE ERECTED

Education Board’s Plans LAND ONCE OCCUPIED BY TE ARO SCHOOL After baring occupied its present building for almost 45 years, the Wellington Education Board is to erect new offices on the site in Upper Willis Street formerly used by the Te Aro School. Plans for the new building have been completed, and will Im presenter! to the board at its monthly meeting next week. The site the board proposes to use is between Vivian Street and Abel Smith Street, on the west side of Willis Street. It is free of buildings, so the board can start erecting its new offices as soon as it wishes, though it is not likely that they will lie ready until well into next year. For some time now the board has been building up a fund for this purpose. Work on the board’s Mercer Street offices was begun early in 1891, and the building, called the Wellington Education Board’s offices and School of Design, was officially opened on August 14 of that year by the chairman, Mr. J. R. Blair. This was the second building occupied by the board, the first one having been sold over its head in 1883, and it was one of the first buildings erected on the land being reclaimed around the waterfront. The School of Design’s rooms were taken over by ihe board as its activities expanded.

The District Office of the Health Department shares the building with the Education Board, but arrangements for the office’s future accommodation will not have to be made for some mouths.