WEST END SCHOOL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 142, 16 May 1940, Page 5

WEST END SCHOOL

ACCOMMODATION DIFFICULTY. Consequent on the continued additions of pupils to the West End School, the School Committee applied to the Wanganui Education Board, for ' additional accommodation, the suggestion being made that two rooms at the new Intermediate School, nearing completion, •be made available in the meantime lor Standards 5 and 6’. At tlie beginning of 1938 the roll totalled 398; in 1939 it was 425;_at the beginning of 1940, it was 472; and it has now reached 489. It is likely to be well of excess of 500 by the end of this year. The teachers’ retiring room and the library, are being used as class-rooms. The architect (Mr E. R. Hodge) reported that essential facilities at the ■lntermediate School were not yet completed and, therefore, tlie building could not be used. Further, if children were allowed into the building this would break a clause (as to maintenance) in the contract for the construction of the building, which stop would he very inadvisable. The use of rooms at the Intermediate School was out of the question. With the secretary (Air G. N. Boulton) the senior inspector (Mr B. N. T. Blake) and his two colleagues, much time had boon spent in an endeavour to find a way out. In consequence, the architect recommended that the school organisation be examined in order to determine whether or not tlie school’ could function with little inconvenience until the end of the year. The board decided that the senior inspector the secretary and Colonel J. H. Wbvte and Mr W. H. Brown (members of tlie board; follow out tlie recommendation made. In the mean time, they have been given authority to restrict the entrance of further five-year-old children for as long n.s the; consider necessary.