MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4419, 26 May 1922, Page 2

MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL.

THE BOARD’S OFFER;

AND COMMITTEE’S REPLY,

The following letter, in reply to the correspondence received from the Auckland Education Board, as published in last issue of the “Gazette,” in reference tp the proposed Paeroa Manual Training School, has been sent to the Board- by Mr Jas. Cpuper, secretary of; the Pareoa District Higa School Committee: ,

‘Tn reply tp your letter of the 15th instant, .1 am directed on behalf of my Committee to thank your -Board for-its support iA. the matter of the Manual Training School in this centre. I have pleasure in informing you'that the -sum of £Bl has been paid to your credit to day. This amount, we understand, will be sufficient to finance the raising of £2300, which we ar.e informed will be suffir cient to build a new manual training school to accommodate both the woodwork’ and cookery departments.

“This propositibn will; we think, be the one most preferable, and will obviate the necessity of removing the Mackaytown school, wihch, we understand, will in'the near future be the school most suitable for the Karangahake children to attend, as population is - drifting from, the main township to Mackaytown, that being a better area for population purposes.-

“The Committee are unanimously of the opinion that a new, building will be the proposition most desirable, and being placed on the Technical High School site it will be available for use in connection with the Technical High School, which we hope to see established there in the near future.

However, rather than lose the chance of having a school established here we would accept the proposition -co move the Mackaytown school and refit the building in the playgroui d at the District High -School, though the headmaster informs us that good use can be made, and is being made, of the building while it is in its present positioA.

“I. would ask, on behalf of my Committee;, that you urge this matter on the Department as soon as possible, as yon will see, from the accompanying letter that the.proposal is likely to receive sympathetic consideration.”