NEW SCHOOLS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20277, 11 April 1934, Page 11

NEW SCHOOLS.

Education of Roman Catholic Pupils.

To further the interests of Roman Catholic education, church schools are to be built at New Brighton and Dallington. The Catholic children who are at present attending either the North Beach School or the New Brighton District High School will attend the new New Brighton school. The site will be on the property at present occupied by the Roman Catholic Church in Lonsdale Street. Plans have already been prepared for the building, which will house up to 100 children. The space available on the church site will be ample for the building, but there will be little room for a recreation ground. The Rawhiti Domain will be used as a playground, thus overcoming the difficulty aL lack of ground. Inquiries show that the new school will affect both the New Brighton and North Beach Schools in regard to attendance and grading. The number likely to leave will be in the vicinity of seventy. The committees of both schools are keeping in close touch with developments. The New Brighton parish is in charge of Father F. B. O'Regan. The new Dallington school will be built near the church in Gayhurst Road. The buildings will each measure 76ft in length and 25ft in width. They will have two rooms, separated by folding partitions. When the partitions are folded back the buildings will be suitable for use as social halls. The schools will be staffed bv teaching sisters already in Christchurch, and the Roman Catholic School Committee will control them. Tenders are being called, and the work of construction will probably commence within three weeks.