INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Press, Volume C, Issue 29514, 16 May 1961, Page 8

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Opening Date Uncertain

The opening date for the Fendalton Intermediate School will be discussed at the meeting of the Canterbury Education Board. Questioned yesterday the secre-tary-manager of the board (Mr W. P. Spencer) said this was necessary because expected building timetables had been upset by the delay in accepting a tender. Originally the project was delay’ed while the former Minister of Education (Mr Skoglund) examined district objections to the project, Mr Spencer said. When these were over-ruled by Mr Skoglund. the board planned the school to open next February. It was then expected that a tender would be accepted by April at the latest but that, even then, manual training facilities would not be finished in time. Acceptance of a tender was approved last week by the new Minister (Mr Tennent) and the board was now investigating whether sufficient classrooms could be made ready for opening next February. In addition the board would have to consider representations from recent householders’ meetings that the new intermediate school should not be opened until it was completed. Some parents considered pupils would be better left in their present primary schools, rather than enter an incomplete intermediate school. To remove uncertainly the board would wish, as early as possible, to give definite information on its plans, Mr Spencer said.