EDUCATION BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 14

EDUCATION BOARD.

MANUREWA DISTRICT. SECONDARY SCHOOL WANTED. /The Auckland Education Board met yesterday, the chairman, Mr, A. Burns, presiding. The question of providing a secondary school far the district covering Papakura, Takanini, Manurewa and Papatoetoe was referred to in a letter received from the Education Department. It was stated that the Minister of Education had been approached by a committee at Manurewa and the department asked that a comprehensive report should be submitted, showing the support likely to be received from the district. It was decided to obtain the necessary information from the committee.

The Northcote Junior High School Committee reported that it did not approve of the department's proposal, to use a cottage on land recently purchased at the school as a teachers hostel and a training home for girl pupils. It was decided to forward the committee's letter to the department. The department notified that owing to lack of funds the work of remodelling the Waihi District High School would have to be held over until the next financial year. The committee is to be notified to this effect. A request from the Te Aroha School Committee for the erection of a secondary department building on the new school site was recommended for the urgent consideration of the department. It was decided to apply, to the department for a grant for the erection of two classrooms to form the nucleus of a separate infant department at the Point Chevalier School.

Support was given to the action of the Rotorua High School Board in urging the department to open the district high school in February next.- ; Application was made to the department for the supply of a piano and a gramophone fori the Teachers' Training Colleges. ■ . -