EDUCATION BOARD

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 124, 23 February 1928, Page 5

EDUCATION BOARD

MORE SCHOOL ROOMS NEEDED The Education Board met yesterday, there being present Messrs. T. Forsyth, MJ.’, (in the chair), L. H. Atkins, P. Robertson, G. T. London, J. Stouehouse, T. Moss, C. H. Nicholls, W. L. Howe, R. McLeod, D. McCallum, and J. J. Clark, with Senior Inspector Strachan. A letter from the Education Department approved a grant of J 82836 for the erection of three rooms of the new school at Ngaio. Air. Bowe asked what was the meaning of the report which had been published in reference to the new school at Newtown West. The chairman: It means that we are actually going to get the school, which has been promised about six times. The Executive Committee reported that it had decided to make strong representations to the Education Department that largely increased accommodation bo provided in the Lyall Bay, South and Central Miramar area, and that a grant should at once be approved for the erection of the first block of a school at Rongotai; further, that a grant be made in accordance with the application already forwarded for the erection of a school at Central Miramar. Application is also to be made for a grant for two temporary rooms at Island Bay. The supervisor of manual training centres, reporting upon the Lower Hutt and Petone centres, stated that in 1927 there was some congestion in tha domestic science classes at the beginning of the year, due to the tremendous expansion taking place in the Hutt Valley. A. relieving teacher was appointed and the difficulty overcome. An extended scheme of instruction in woodwork and domestic science would be in operation at Petone in 1928, and would meet Hie position in the meantime. In 1926 tha need for a new and up-to-date woodwork room at Petoue was commented upon. With the extension of the manual training programme at this centre, the need was now urgent. The present room was dingy, badly planned, and quite inadequate for the number of pupils. These drawbacks had a detrimental effect upon the work of the teacher and pupils, and good results could not be expected under such conditions.