School Just Opened Already Too Small
P.A. WELLINGTON. Oct. 17. The new Taita Central School at Lower Hutt, the first school in New Zealand to draw all its pupils from a State housing area, was opened by the Minister of Education, Mr McCombs, on Saturday. The school’s nine rooms are already inadequate for the 466 children who are enrolled, and tenders have been called for two additional rooms. Referring to the special problems of the area, Mr McCombs said that the number of primary school children to each 100 houses was 78. instead of the usual 65, and a survey made showed that this figure would reach 138 within five years. The plans for Hutt Valley, he added, included two new high schools, one of which would have an intermediate department, two new intermediate schools, and a new primary school. The Acting Prime Minister, Mr Nash, also spoke at the ceremony.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26905, 18 October 1948, Page 4
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