THE CONVENT BUILDINGS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1925, Page 2

THE CONVENT BUILDINGS

RECENT EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS,

The new hoarding school attached to the local Convent of Mercy is rapidly approaching completion so that it will he ready for occupation on the re-open-ing of the school. The building which is an asset to the towiv is the work of Mr C. O’Neil, architect and contractor, of Christchurch. It is a two-storey building on a concrete foundation. Up. stairs are the girls’ sleeping apartments —two dormitories each 40ft by 20ft, a dressing room 80ft lift, three bath rooms, lavatory, linen and medicine rooms. The interior is pannelled ip rimu, the dressing room being fitted with 30 porcelain basins and wardrobes. Downstairs is the hall iront which the staircase ascends. The windows and doors in'the hall and on the st-aii case have lead-lights of special designs —that of the hall door hearing the motto of the school —“ A.M.D.G. The lead-lights are the work of Bradley ami Co., Christchurch. Off the hall, pannelled in plaster hoard and rimu, is the cloak room, fitted with presses, ■basin, rack, etc. The class rooms, three in number—a room for secondary students, a junior room, and a kindergarten—are all large and airy, well ventilated during wet weather as well as dry, the windows being of the type approved by the Government. The fire-places in each room are finished with clinker bricks and round the walls are panels of hyloplato for drawing, etc. Finely finished presses are built into each room. The girls’ sitting room op.ft bv 22ft, music-room panelled like the hall, a dining-room 30ft by 20ft, and a fully equipped science room make up the length of the building, some 130 ft. Upstairs there is a private balcony which connects with the Convent and which may he utilized for sleeping. Downstairs each room opens to a verandah. The building is lit by electric light and there is hot and cold water throughout. The course of studies pursued at the school is .that usually followed in primary and secondary schools. The students are prepared for all the usual school and musical examinations, for Intermediate, Public Service, Matriculation and Teachers’ Examination as also for Commercial Examinations.