SITE FOR GIRLS' HOSTEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18942, 13 February 1925, Page 12

SITE FOR GIRLS' HOSTEL.

G R /ff&MAFW S CHOO Lg&S CJH¥M S, NEGOTIATIONS IN PROGRESS. Proposals involving the purchase by the Auckland Grammar School Board of the Probation Home at Mount Albert, now the property of the Education .Department, were discussed at a conference yesterday between the Minister for Education, the Hon. C. J. Parr, and members of the board. The suggestion of the Minister is that the board should pay the department a sura sufficient to enable it to acquires a site for a probation home in a moro suitable locality. The Minister stated the Probation Home proporty would make an admirable site for a girls' hostel, while the adjoining five acres now unoccupied would easily accommodate a girls' grammar school. He felt the time was not fat distant when a secondary school for girls would bo required in the district, and it would be a distinct advantage to Uave the hostel adjoining for the proper housing and supervision of country pupils who were compelled to board away from homo. The Minister said the property war. worth about £12,000, and was much too valuable for its present use. It would be possible to sell it at a handsome profit, but ifc seemed to him a better plan to keep the land tkoy now possessed for the future educational needs of Auckland, rather than to sell and be compelled later to acquire hind in closely settled areas at a high figure. The terms of the proposal are now being discussed between the board and the department, and- in view of the attitude taken by the board there is every chance of a satisfactory agreement being reached.