NEW INFANTS’ SCHOOL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19122, 17 September 1936, Page 4

NEW INFANTS’ SCHOOL

GISBORNE REQUEST* COST OP ABOUT £14,000 OPEN--AIR PRINCIPLE The erection of a new building to house infant pupils at the Gisborne Central School at a cost, of from £13,000 to £14.000 was urged on the, Director of Education, Air. X. T. Hunbourne. by members of school committees at a meeting held in the Gisborne Central School last night.

The following motion, moved by Air. J. S. Wauchop. a member of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, and seconded by Mr. J. H. Sunderland, chairman, of the Gisborne Central School Committee, was carried unanimous-lv :—-

“That this meeting urges on the Department. of Education the necessity for an entirely new infants’ school at the. Gisborne Central School to be erected on the new infants’ school site and to incorporate all the latest ideas with regard to open-air infants’ school rooms.”

The section referred to is on the western side of Cobden street-, where the dental clinic now stands. “NOT MUCH HELP” Supporting the proposal, Air. H. H. De Costa, said that Gisborne had not had much help from the Hawke’s Bay Education Board in the past.

Mr. Wauchop : We have been first on the list for a long time. Mr. De Costa : It is no good being first, if we don’t get anywhere with it. Mr. G. A. Maddison, chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, stated that, the board had pressed for three major works for a long time, these being the Gisborne Central Infants’ School, a new Hastings Central School, which was about 60 " years old, and a new school for Waipawa, where the present building was 60 or 70 years old. The type of building Gisborne required would cost from £13.000 to £14.000. lie had never lost- an opportunity in placing Gisborne’s claims before the Minister, hutin the past the Government had sidestepped the big cost necessary for these three major works. DEMOLITION PLANS All*. Wauchop endorsed Air. Aladdison’s remarks, and said that if he really spoke the truth he would' have to admit that the claims of Napier Central were even greater than those of Gisborne, for the whole school was worse than the Gisborne infants’ building. Air. Aladdison was in a position to press the claims of Hastings before those of Gisborne, but he had done' otherwise. “I don’t- think you can have anything fairer than that,”’Air. Wauchop added. Air. Sunderland suggested that in addition to the erection of the new infants’ building, the present technical school buildings, including the kjookeryi and plumbing rooms, should he demolished, if an intermediate school were erected. He also urged that central heating should he installed in the remaining buildings. This recommendation also was carried unanimously.