NEW SCHOOL SITE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1937, Page 8

NEW SCHOOL SITE

i FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION. RETIRING DIRECTOR’S HOPE. - “This school has been hampered in the past by lack of accommodation, and 1 am satisfied that if parents could have seen the conditions under which their boys and girls were taught there would have been a public outcry,” declared the director (Mr G. G. Hancox) in his valedictory address at the breaking-up ceremony of the Palmerston North Technical School last evening. „ , r TT “During the year, Mr Hancox added, “the Education Department purchased a strip of land 66ft wide, extending from street to street, behind the present building, and 1 hope that it will not be long before a handsome building is erected there, remote from traffic noises.” ... . Comment ori the acquisition of this land was also made by Mr M. HOram, chairman of the governing body. He expressed the hope that on the land would be built the nucleus of a new and better technical school building as urgent extensions to the present accommodation were required owing to the pressure of large classes. It was clear, lie said, that Palmerston North was going to become one of the most important educational centres of the Dominion.