Rangi-ruru Girls’ School

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31117, 21 July 1966, Page 9

Rangi-ruru Girls’ School

The extent of new , accommodation at Rangiruru Presbyterian School ' Tor Girls is shown in this aerial photograph of the block bounded by Hewitts road (left), Carlton Mill road (top), Rossall street (right) and Merlvale lane (bottom). The tall building at the top of the picture is the Millbrook apartments. Rangi-ruru School now occupies much of the middle of the block, including the former Rhodes street reserve (on the curved road) and tennis courts on Rossall street. The large school building nearest the camera on Hewitts road is the new chapel assembly hall with a sanctuary on the street frontage, a stage at the other end, and an abutting two-storey block with cookery department on the ground floor and music and film appreciation rooms upstairs. The small annex to the right of this contains music and class rooms. The rectangular white building at right-angles is the new Gibson memorial library with bicycle storage underneath. The library commemorates the founders of the school. All these new buildings are well advanced. They will be officially opened in December and used next year. Added to other new buildings erected a few years ago on Hewitts road, they give the school substantially all new teaching accommodation. The big two-storey homestead in the middle of the grounds is the main boarding establishment. There is another across Hewitts road. In a building appeal a year ago the school received

.promises of nearly £90,000 for the present extensions. These included £3BOO from the Parent-Teacher Association, £5OOO from the J. W. Graham bequest, £5400 from the Rangi-ruru Old Girls’ Association for the Gibson library, and about £75,000 in the general appeal. The hall, classrooms, and

library will cost £62,324, but new heating and ventilation services and furnishings will take the full amount of the appeal. The school has plans for another £30,000 block to replace the old “stable block.” This will complete the full renewal of teaching accommodation.