GRANT FOR SHIRLEY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 683, 9 February 1933, Page 13

GRANT FOR SHIRLEY.

Junior High School to be Built. (“ Star ” Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, February 8. Cabinet has approved of a grant for the erection of a junior high school at Shirley to relieve the congestion at Richmond, Shirley and St Albans. Advice to this effect was received by Mr Sullivan from the lion R. Masters this afternoon. The new building will consist of eight rooms and a laboratory, together with the necessary shelter sheds and outoffices. The decision to erect the new school is the outcome of representations by Mr Sullivan with a view to relieving the congestion at Richmond, where the accommodation is too small to meet present needs. The proposal to form a new intermediate school, or junior high school, at Shirley has been in the minds of the educational authorities in Canterbury for some time, and the departmental officials have also given the scheme favourable consideration. Now that the grant has been approved by Cabinet it is only a matter of time before the work is begun, though a detailed course of action has not yet been decided upon. The site upon which the new school will stand is at the corner of Marshland Road and Shirley Road. The fifteen acres are situated most favotirably, in a growing district not too L;r from the centre of the city, yet far enough out to have plenty of room. The land has been held by the. Board of Governors of Canterbury College, which body has had it in mind as the site for another secondary school. As the Board of Governors’ idea is being fulfilled by the present scheme it decided to hand over the land to the Departmental authorities. The work of levelling the area has already begun.