HATAITAI WANTS A NEW SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 2

HATAITAI WANTS A NEW SCHOOL

BRITOMART STREET FILLING UP. 'There is perhaps no surer guide to our steadily incrcasing_ population than the demand that is being made for accommodation for school children in various quarters of Wellington City. The Wellington Education Board opened a new. school at Britomart Street, Berhampore, four weeks ago on Monday. To-day there aro 420 pupils on the register of that school. It is considered that tho school will be well-filled within .the year. In' the construction of tho school provision was made for future extensions. An addition to the Brooklyn School has been completed, and will be formally opened by the chairman of the' board (Hon. J. G'. W. Aitken) at 11 a.m. tomorrow. The addition consists of the building of an extra story (in brick) over part of the school structure, and makes provision for another 104, children in two large class-rooms, besides a women teachers' toilet room (14ft. x 12ft). The parents of scholars arc being invited to attend and morning tea. is to be provided. , • The future building programme of the Education Board includes a-school for tho rapidly-growing suburb-of Hataitai. The children of people resident at Hataitai have at present cither to attend tho Roseneath School to the north or the KUbirnie School to the south. The former school is already taxed to its utmost to accommodate the children of tho locality, so much so indeed that a cottage was secured some time aco as an adjunct to the school. The Kilbirnio School is not quite so full just at present, but there is no room to sparo there. The Education Board has already secured a site for a school in a central position in Hataitai, and at tho first opportune occasion the Government will bo approached for a grant for the building.