RANGITIKEI.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 145, 22 May 1939, Page 11

RANGITIKEI.

i i MARTON, Alny 20. An advanced stage has now been reached in the extension work, involving expenses ? totalling about £9OOO, to the secondary ucpartment of tho Aiarton District High School, and it is anticipated that the new ’ buildings will bip ready for occupation in ! approximately six weeks’ time, lbc east ’ wing of the secondary department lias been ' extended 140 ft, making a total length o : 240 ft. Three class rooms, an arts and craft room, two cloak rooms and a porch, ; comprise tbo additions to this section. A i cookery room, 41ft by 35ft, lias been added to tho science room, in the south wing. ; This room contains all the facilities neecs- : sary, including two electric ranges. I here i are two small storerooms attached to the cookery room. There is also another cloak room and a long corridor with entrances at the south end and where the cast and south wings adjoin. A separate building, adjacent to the cooking room, of 38ft by 35ft dimensions, is tbo woodwork room. Housed underneath tbo woodwork building is a heating arrangement, known as the return and flow system, which is worked by a boiler. The secondary department before tbo additions was a building of three class rooms, a teachers’ room, a science room, and a boye’ and girls’ lobby. Now there arc eight class rooms, a science room, cookery room, and wodwork room, as well as additional conveniences, lobbies and cor- | ridors. Mr L. McTndoc, who is reenperaf at To Puke after an illness, is now much improved in health. jH. Brown and F. L. Nicol were appointed | additional elder* for Mart on at a meeting of the Communicant members of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, while My W. Harvey was ‘ elected to a similar position for Tutaenui. . The lard meet of the Bangitikci Hunt Club was held at Williamson's Line, when, though there were no kills made, a hare was chafed. A decision to aflilrate with the T\ing Country Association was made at a meeting of' the Marton Volunteer Fire Brigade, over which the superintendent (Mr G. Grey) presided.