NEW SCHOOL WANTED AT AUCKLAND
(United Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 29. Stating that the position was urgent and serious, the Auckland Education Board today sent a telegram to the Department of Education asking what the department intended to do to alleviate overcrowding in three schools in the Point Chevalier area. The chairman (Mr W. J. Campbell) explained that at the three schools concerned, Point Chevalier, Westmere and Gladstone road, a total of six temporary rooms was required. At present the children were being taught in the cloakrooms, corridors and common rooms. The board wanted a permanent intermediate school on a site in the centre of the district as a solution. That school would start with a roll number of between 600 and 700, which gave some idea of the overcrowding at present
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Southland Times, Issue 23987, 30 November 1939, Page 4
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