HUTT HIGH SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 112, 5 February 1920, Page 4

HUTT HIGH SCHOOL

A SITE PURCHASED. The Education Department has purchased a block of about eighteen acres on Wobum Road, adjoining the BeUevue Gardens,'-as a site for a high school for the Untt Vallev. The lnnd forms part of the Woburn Estate and is immediately opposite the Lower Hutt Recreation Ground. The school to be erected on this site is intended to serve both Petono and Lower llutt. The site, stated the Director of Education (Dr. W- J- Anderson) yesterday, is regarded by the Department as tho most suitable in the ITntt Valley, for situated as it is the needs of the people of both Petone and the Hutt can be host entered for. The greater part of the land is admirably situated as regards the river, though a small part is of a lower level. The site lias a good frontage on Woburn Road, and a tongue of the land extends towards White's Line, and it access is provided by means of a footbridge across the river, the site will be brought 'within a mile and a half of the Petone Post. Office. Some trilling adjustments have yet to be made in the matter of purchasing conditions, but the transaction is practically completed, and,, the Director added, the people of the Hutt Valley ought to congratulate themselves upon tho fact that the Minister has agreed to the purchase of such a splendid property on tlieir behalf—a site in every way more desirable than that suggested on' Percy's Estate.