MODEL KINDERGARTEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 68, 22 March 1939, Page 8

MODEL KINDERGARTEN

CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION | LATER TO BE USED IN WELLINGTON. I Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, March 21. Plans for the erection of a model kindergarten as a separate pavilion at the centennial exhibition, afterward be re-erected as an actual children's schoolhouse in Wellington South, have been arranged by the Wellington Free Kindergarten Association in conjunction with the exhibition authorities. The site selected for the kindergarten is on the left of the main gate of the exhibition. It is a new departure from the established precedents of kindergarten architecture. The building will be 78 feet long by 30ft. wide. In addition to the usual classrooms, cloakrooms and kitchen accommodation it will incorporate a large enclosed sunroom and two open air verandahs. On the close of the exhibition the kindergarten will be dismantled and re-erected on a site to be selected in Wellington South. Negotiations are at present being carried out through the Government for a suitable site where in addition to rebuilding the model kindergarten it will be possible also to establish a children's play area. It. is estimated that the cost of the building at Rongotai and its erection on the final site will be only £3OOO. This has been made possible by the presentation by various firms in all parts of New Zealand of most of the materials required for the