PUKEKOHE PUBLIC SCHOOL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 582, 9 November 1920, Page 2

PUKEKOHE PUBLIC SCHOOL.

ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY.. A' highly interesting series of com munications have been received vy th< chairman of the Pukekolie Disti ic! School Committee (Mr. F, Perkinsi from Messrs. Jno. Farrell (architect) J. F. Kalaugher (supervisor) and D W. Dunlop (advisor inspector) of the Auckland Education Board, through the secretary of the board, Mr. E. C. Purdic.

Tin- correspondence first sets oui llif board's views on tlie remedies foi liit; overcrowding of the present primal y school accommodation, the pre ~ hi yriHiiiiry capacity of wliicli i: ISJO pupil:, while 'the roll for Septenv I her was 102, and the average attend unce 'i'ib. The means to be adopted l-j relieve Lhi- congestion, which j neee&bilattv, (he use of the Oddfel ! lows Hall to iakc the oiirplus. arJ Hist the ure.-e'il manual truing d, I partmen! be convcited into ■.m itj fn.nt department on part of the . it' | (original 10 acre::) acquired for 111'- | Technical High School. The irchi j led states that when tins buildhi;was erected ii. \\a.- designed so Iha I j it '"ould later Ijf converted into an inf:int department. As an alternative, two rooms could he added In the present main hui'd ing. The secondary department at pre sent, housed in the hall will be trans ferrcd to the Technical High School next year, and the hall would then he available for temporary accommodation for the primary department j while the necessary alterations vvcre being made. The board recommends that the a!-! tt-rnative proposals mentioned above; be submitted to the Department of l Mutation with the suggestion that! the first proposal be adopted. This, view is supported by the Acting-j Senior-lii.«:pectoi\ j It is understood that the new primary school building, if approved by. the Department, will be in brick.