DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19753, 28 September 1927, Page 12

DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

NEW WHAKATANE BUILDING. PUPILS TAKE POSSESSION. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT, j WHAKATANE. Tuesday After having been taught for eight months in marquees, as a result of the Whakatane District High School having been burned down last January, three classes took up their quarters yesterday in the new school, which is nearing completion. The new school is situated on a 10-acre site recently acquired. It has a northeasterly aspect, thus getting the fullest advantage of the daylight, while the ven tilation is all that could be desired. There are five large classrooms, built in a row,, with a iong corridor at the back. The plans provide for three more classrooms when the attendance warrants. There are folding doors between two classrooms and these two rooms can thus be used as an assembly hall. There are also rooms for the headmaster a6d the st&n. Two other classes, at present taught elsewhere, will go into the new school next week. The official opening of the school will take place early in November, when the Minister of Education has premised to perform the ceremony. THAMES BOAED OP GOVERNORS. USE OF SCHOOL GROUNDS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] THAMES. Tuesday fiie Thames High School Board of j Governors met '.his morning, the press ! dent, Dr. J. B. Liggins, presiding. s The Hon. R. A- Wright, Minister of \ Education, acknowledged receipt 01 a 1 resolution protesting against the rumoured j abolition of secondary school boards. The j board s views wo old be earefullv coms:d- i ered The Thames Soceties' Benevolent Asso i ciatson was granted permission to hold a j carnival on toe school grounds.on Labour Day, October 24. The secretary, Mr. «J. Kernick, reported j 1 - -**t ® sum of ±£3 13® had been rece*ved j ir goldfieids revenue from the board's I endowment at Te Arofaa during the past i month. * i