MODEL FLAT IN SCHOOL
HOUSECRAFT FOR GIRLS The new £46,000 central school at Birkenhead, England, boasts a girls' model flat of modern design, a cinema projecting room and a finely equipped gymnasium, with shower baths. "Oh, to be back at school! " say many of the parents on seeing this latest attempt to make schools more homely and attractive. The model fiat has a living room and bedroom, a larder and bathroom, and almost every conceivable detail of a modern home, and it is to serve as the principal means for teaching girls lessons in housecraft. The school, which lias accommodation for 1040 children, has been designed on the open-air principle, the classrooms having large sliding windows to give a maximum of sunshine and air.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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124MODEL FLAT IN SCHOOL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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