THE KOWHAI SCHOOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18120, 19 June 1922, Page 8

THE KOWHAI SCHOOL.

REQUIREMENTS OF DISTRICT. ANOTHER BUILDING ADVOCATED. The Kowai Junior High School proposal has been the subject of communications received by Mr. Ss A. Jackson, chairman of the Kowhai Householders' Committee, from the Education Board and the Minister for Education, the Hon. C. J. Parr. The board notified that it had resolved to make immediate application f:r further primary school accommodation in the district, and 'was assured by the director of education that favourable consideration would be given to such application at an early date. In particular the board would apply at once for the erection of a school on the site recently acquired in Brixton Road. To ease the accommodation question in the Mount Eden-Edendale-Mount Albert area it has been resolved to admit the pupils of standards IV. and V. to the Kowhai Junior High School at its opening on ! September 11. Air. Parr stated that he had asked the board to make propoiala regarding further accommodation in addition tc the Kowhai School, and the board's proposals would be considered at the eariest possible moment. The Householders' Committee on Satur- ! day evening resolved that in addition to again writing to the Minister and the board, Mr. V. H. Potter, M.P. for the district, be asked to .arrange for a deputation to wait upon Mr. Parr during his present visit to Auckland.