PORTABLE SCHOOLS
Prefabricated Rooms Being Built . (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 8. To alleviate serious overcrowding in Auckland schools the education authorities have orderer! the construction of 45 pre-fabricated classrooms. The Auckland Education Board does not know whether the number will be increased further. The design of the pre-fnbricated rooms was determined some months ago in 'Wellington when education board architects met in conference The rooms will be compact, with a stove in one corner, and will have a northerly aspect, being light--cd by five windows. They will measure 27'feet by 24$ feet and should accommodate 50 pupils. Outside the walls will be of three-ply covered with Malthoid, and inside they will be panelled. The rooms will be eayly removable from one school to another as necessity arises.
It is expected that the first pf the rooms will be in use this month.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 114, 9 February 1944, Page 4
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