NEW BUILDING

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 9

NEW BUILDING

PETONE TECHNICAL COLLEGE

CABINET APPROVES GRANT

The Board of Managers of the Petone Memorial Technical College was' advised last evening by the Minister of Education, the. Hon. S. G. Smith, that j Cabinet had approved a substantial | grant for the replacement of its brick > building. ' : . ! This building was erected in 1908, ! and was the first real home of the school. Prior to that date the school, then solely a night school, had beeii located first in a building in JacKson Street opposite the Council Chambers, and afterwards in a two-storeyed building at the corner of Campbell Terrace and Sydney Street. In 1908 the present brick building was erected, the site being granted by i the Petone Borough Council. The I building was designed, by Mr. F. de J. Clere, and was one of the finest | buildings in Petone, containing five I large classrooms and an office. The school, however, soon outgrew the building, and a large wooden annex was i erected at the rear. • [ Rye years ago the school w.as made a High School and day classes were instituted. Land was purchased in Kensington Avenue, and a large twostoreyed workshop was erected in reinforced concrete. The growing needs of the district rapidly overcrowded this building, and two months ago a contract was let for a third storey, which, with a motoi: workshop, is now in course of erection. It is the intention of the Board of Managers to call tenders for the demolition of the brick building and the erection of a modern building which will adequately house the rapidly* growing classes. At the present time the school has « total roll of about 1200. . It is hoped that the new building will be ready for occupation early in 1936.