ADDITIONS TO SCHOOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20968, 3 September 1931, Page 11

ADDITIONS TO SCHOOL.

OTAHUHU JUNIOR HIGH

SIX EXTRA CLASSROOMS.

Authority to proceed with the plans for six additional classrooms at the Otahuhu Junior High School has been received by the Auckland Education Board from the Education Department. In a letter read at. a meeting of the hoard yesterday the department stated that it had under consideration additional accommodation afc the school. Plans were required so that the work could proceed as soon as funds were available. It was desirable that the building should be erected in reinforced concrete.

. Advice was received that the newlyconstituted school c6mmittee strongly endorsed the following resolution passed at a recent meeting of householders and parents: "It is urged that provision should be made for a full course of secondary education, including technical, academic and agricultural instruction, and that evening continuation classes should be provided as the need arises." Mr. H. S. W. King said every facility should be given for the establishment of a fully-equipped post-primary school at Otahuhu, with an agricultural bias. It was decided to forward the request to the department for favourable consideration.

NEW WAIHI SCHOOL.

PROPOSALS OF DEPARTMENT.

Proposals for school facilities at Waihi, following the destruction of the former school bv fire, were received by the Auckland Education Board yesterday from the Education Department. The board was asked to prepare plans for a central school of the intermediate type containing six rooms. It was stated that arrangements wore to be made for the primary divisions to be accommodated in the east and south schools.