GISBORNE MAIN SCHOOL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 6

GISBORNE MAIN SCHOOL

SUGGESTED ALTERATIONS DIRECTOR TO CONFER Reports upon the condition of the Gisborne Central School building, together with estimates of the cost of various alterations suggested, were furnished to the llawke’s Bay Education Board at its monthly meeting ill Napier on Friday, and a special committee was appointed to confer with the Director of Education, preferably in Gisborne. The Gisborne members of the board, Messrs. .). S. Wauehop and T. A. Coleman, reported that in company with tile hoard's architect and members of the committee and the headmaster they inspected the school alter tlie earthquake of September 16. Oil the whole the building seemed to have come through the earthquake very well, but there was a feeling in the minds of all concerned that the children should not return to the second floor. It was arranged with the headmaster and the committee that the junior classes should he accommodated in the spare room in the old technical building, and on the verandahs of the infant school. This arrangement would meet the position for a few weeks only; the major question of permanent accommodation, the Gisborne members considered, should be taken up immediately by the department. They united with the school committee hi strongly urging that the brick building should he reduced to one storey, and that the necessary further accommodation should he built of timber. Tin' hoard also received a letter from the school committee a skim; that- temuorary accommodation should be erected as soon as possible for the children displaced from the top storev of the brick uilding, and recommending that the top storey should he removed as soon as possible. In his report upon the condition of the

school, the board’s architect, Mr. Boland, stated that on the whole the building had withstood the earthquake much better than other brick buildings in Gisborne. Mr. Boland suhmited rough estimates of I lie cost of taking off the upper storev and of erecting separate wooden buildings. It was resolved that the chairman, secretary, senior inspector, and Messrs. Wauehop and Coleman should lie an pointed a special committee to confer with the Director of Education, prefernhlv in Gisborne, when the proposals and also the ouestion of an intermediate school for Gisborne could he gone into. The chairman, Mr. G. A. Maddison, in his monthly report, expressed thanks to Mess'-s. Wauehop and Coleman, and to the Wairon member. Mr. 0. R. Sainshurv, for the prompt steps taken by Hie in in connection with the problems arising out of the earthquake in their resiwtive districts. In connection with the'old cottage on the new infant school site, the architect '■epnrted that both chimneys had fallen. ”ul the building was not worth the cost of re-erecting them. He recommended that the building should he sold for '■ppinval. and it was resolved that this should he done.