NEW MANUAL SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 202, 21 May 1920, Page 3

NEW MANUAL SCHOOL

BOOX TO LOWUR HUTT CHILDREN. For a ; considenyjle time past those pupils-of the . tiipLower Ilutt Schools and the Tuita ScTOol, who take cooking, dressmaking, or woodwork 'cssons, have 'had to travel all lie way to the Petone Technical: School. Brighter prospects, however, 'are "in store for .'such pupils, as the Education-Department lias granted .£■1057 for the , crection of 'three large classroom:* at the Hutt, on a -section a stone's r,!"row away from the main street, and adjoining the site of the, proposed new high- school. This site lias b?en presented to the -board by (lie trustees of the iate Mr. E. J. Riddiford, and toward? the cost of t.lie new structure the locai residents liave contributed. =£300; The Government subsidy on the value of the land (.£250) and the amount subscribed -provided a sum of .tSC-U. The Dr-partment is finding the irst of the money. The new building wili comprise three" large classrooms (for cooking., dressmaking, and woodwork), and will •hive coiiipment costing not less than .13(19. The idea of providing such :|jlaee was suggested bv the Mayor o! Lower Hutt (Mr. E. I>. liishworth). Tinnew luauuitl school —it is not by any means a technical school—will be a boon to the pupils ol the Hutt and. Tail a Schools, who havt been placed at a disadvantage for years past in resp-rcfc- In. the classes mentioned.