CLYDE QUAY SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 177, 22 April 1920, Page 5

CLYDE QUAY SCHOOL

NEAV SITE ACQUIRED. Finality was reached at yesterday's meeting of tho Education Board with regard to the question of a new site for the Clyde Quay;lnfants' School, when tho executive recommended that tho agreement with Mr. T. W. Young for tho acquisition of his land on tho northern side of Elizabeth Street, at the Brougham Street corner, be approved. According to tlio chairman of the board (Mr. T. Forsyth), the land was intended only for the infant department. Part of the area acquired had been takc-n by tho board, and tho building already on the sito was being converted into classrooms. It was hop3d to acquiro later on an additional site opposite that which had been secured, in order that eventually tho whole school might be transferred to the new site. The chairman thought it would be desirable to remove the present building, anil he had tho support of tho wliolo board in his opinion that tho Elizabeth Street sitn should be tho place for the full school.

Mr. 'J. ,T. .Clarke agreed with the chairman that the acquisition of a new site was a step in the right direction, and _he stressed the necessity of extending the site. To his mind, it would bo a mistake to have one department of the school on one sido of Elizabeth Street and the other on tho opposite side. The chairman said it was hoped that the infants' department would be on one side of the road and tho" main school on the other. There woifld bo no connection between tho two schools, and _ consequently there 'would be no traffic across the street between tho two buildings. The recommendation of the executive was adopted.