NEW SCHOOL SITE

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 3230, 10 June 1924, Page 4

NEW SCHOOL SITE

FURTHER. FOUR ACRES. OPPOSED BY AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. At the monthly meeting of the Cambridge High School Committee held last evening a letter was received from the Minister of Education (Hon. C. J. Parr) in connection with the proposed transfer of four acres of land at. present owned by the Agricultural Department and adjoining the seven acres already acquired for the new school site. The Hon. Minister stated he was in receipt of a reply from the Hon. Minister of Agriculture who states that in view of the report submitted to him by his Departmental officers, he. regrets, he cannot comply with the request, an the land in question is particularly suitable to the Dopartment, and could be used if required for experimental plots. Further tho present school site in Wilson Street is absolutely of no use to his Department nor can it, as far as can be seeu, ever become useful, consisting as it does of a small portion of flat land and a larger portion of gully, sloping steeply down to the Waikato River and densely covered with weeds. Letters in similar strain were also received from the Agricultural Department and the Education Board.

The chairman stated that although portion of the present.site was not firstclass land, there was no doubt about the value of a goodly portion of it, and he characterised the remarks of the Agricultural Department as ridiculous. However, no further action is to be taken in the meantime.