Proposal To Shift Castlecliff Side School To New Site

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 December 1948, Page 4

Proposal To Shift Castlecliff Side School To New Site

„.J h e suggestion that the Castlecliff bide behoof building should be removed from its present site to the Castlecliff School to provide additional accommodation to cope with the present overcrowding there, was made to yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board in a letter from the Castlecliff Committee. Mr. F. c. Tannings, who inspected the school in company with Mr. W. G. Price, said that the school roll at Castlecliff was growing steadily. The roll at the Side School was only 18, and it was considered by the committee that the building should be removed to the Castlecliff School to provide an additional two classrooms, Mr. Tannings said there was a spare room at the Castlecnff School, but it was used as an art room. As a former teacher, he realised that such a room was necessary to accommodate the art equipment, which was bulky. “14. is difficult to understand why the Side School was built where it is,” said Mr. W. G. Price. He had told the chairman of the Castlecliff School that lhe parents of pupils attending the Side School would have to be consulted before the building could be removed. He had also told the chairman that if the proposal was approved it would have to go on the board’s building programme. He moved that the architect should prepare a report on the cost of the proposal and that the secretary should secure lhe opinions of the parents of pupils of the Side School. In seconding this, Mr. E. R. Hodge said that half of the Side School building went, through the Queen’s Pork fire. j Mr. Price: It is better than you could get today * i The motion was carried.