KELBURN SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 68, 13 December 1917, Page 3

KELBURN SCHOOL

LACK OF ACCOMMODATION. Kelburn has the best-looking school buildings, and probably the biggest school buildings, in all Wellington, but the actual accommodation for children there is very limited. The big building is a teachers' training college, and the other building was primarily intended for use as an infant school, for which it is still largely used. A deputation of Kelburn residents waited upon the boaid yesterday to point out the disadvantages undei which the suburb laboured in connection with the education of tho children of its residents. Mr. 'fait, speaking for the deputation, said that the school provided was only an infant school, but children were carried on up to the third and fourth standards if, they had graduated through the school. No other children were received Into these standards. The result was that Kelburn people had to send their children into other districts, where, also, tho schools were overcrowded. Ho asked 011 behalf of the deputation what prospect there was of having a complete school at Kelburn, and when the work was likely to be carried out. Tho chairman said that there seemed to bo some little prospcct now of the board getting a school building started soon. Tho Department had asked the board to supply particulars of tho minimum requirements which would serve at present. So that it appeared that the Department was about to do eomething.