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Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 29

The suggestion that while economy was being so much stressed by the Education Department, schools on the old central corridor principle should'be built instead of those on the much more expensive "orientation” plan, was made by Mr J. J. Clark at the t last meeting* of the Wellington Education Board. Dr J. W. MTlwraith and the board’s architect (Mr G. Powell) said that the central corridor plan killed ventilation and shut out sunlight. But Mr Clark replied that he had been educated in a central corridor school and he ventured to say he was just as healthy as the boys being educated to-day. " Orientation gone mad,” was his description of-the erection of some of the present schools.