SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3063, 26 April 1917, Page 3

SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION

URGENT WORKS HELD. OVER. It. lias been necessarr to postpone a good deal of work owing to the.labour scarcity and. high prices (says the chairman of the Education Board in hie annual roport). When building conditions improve the board purposes making some improvement in the residences occupied by married country teachers. There -being no public dainage system anywhere in Marlboroiigh, the board before amalgamation and constructed a soptio tani system to a number of its larger schools. In several large contres of population there has been a steadily increasing 'attendance, and expenditure! must bo incurred in the near future, e.g., at Masterton, lliramar, Kelburn. In addition, the hoard considers the following—already mentioned in previous reports—as of extreme urgency:— (1) Wellington Technical School.-The teaching conditions havo now become positively discreditable, and in the interests of healthy boyhood and girlhood should bo improved at once. The board urges, as a preliminary step, an immediato settlement of the question of site on the basis of its recommendation. The design can then be developed for execution at the end of tho war. ■ (2)' 'The Main Normal School, Kolburn; —The infant department is overcrowded, but apart from this the school should bo , completed on account of the largo number of students who cannot at present obtain at hand the teaching practice which is an essential part, of their training.