ALBANY STREET SCHOOL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20278, 10 December 1927, Page 2

ALBANY STREET SCHOOL.

FUTURE SITE SETTLED. TWO BOARDS COME TO AGREEMENT At a conference between the Otago Education Board and representatives of the Otago Harbour Board on Wednesday exhaustive consideration was given to all phases of the question of the location of the new Albany Street School. It was mutually arranged, subject to ratification by the Harbour Board, that the Education Board would accept about five acres bounded by Harbour terrace, Albany street, and the Highway, and that piece of land used as a parking area in the Exhibition period, provided the Harbour Board paid all the required compensation. This area is opposite the nresent Albany Street School. It is divided by th e Leith canal, an area of two acres three roods twenty poles (the old parking area), form, ing the portion lying along Union street, with an area of two acres one rood lying to the south of the canal. A bridge 10ft wide connecting the two sections will be provided by the Harbour Board. A special meeting of the Harbour Board, held yesterday afternoon, was attended by Messrs J. M. Dickson (chairman). W. .Wilkinson, 0. M'Donald, C H. Hayward, A. Cable, D. F. S. Sharpe, J. Loudon, H. E. Mollor, W. Gow, J. W. Munro, and T. Anderson. It was resolved, practically unanimously, to ratify th e arrangement come to with the Education Board. The Harbour Board will secure the acre and a-quarter now occupied by the Albany Street School, with the buildings thereon.