SCHOOL HOSTEL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 4, 26 March 1927, Page 15

SCHOOL HOSTEL

PROPOSAL AT HAMILTON ACCOMMODATION REQUIRED (From Our Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, To-day. In his annual report to the High School Board of Governors yesterday, Mr. G. L. Mac Diarmid, president, referred to the necessity of two good boarding schools in Hamilton, one for boys and the other for girls. The board had two admirable properties for these purposes, namely the site of the present school buildings and the Hamilton East property, comprising 47 acres. Both these properties were within quite easy distance of a railway station. Hamilton was ideally situated, he said, as a centre for up-to-date secondary schools. There were other towns in New Zealand with fewer advantages than Hamilton possessed, which had built up and developed very successful State and boarding schools. The board at present had approximately 20 girls at its own boarding-

house known as “ Abbotsford,” a property leased by the board. There were also other girls and boys boarding privately in and about town for the purpose of attending the schools. All of these, and a great many other boys and girls now attending boarding schools in New Zealand, but whose parents resided in this district, could be expected to attend the boarding schools if established here. He thought that a demand from the public of the town and district would necessarily have great weight with departmental authorities. It was decided to make application to the Education Department for a grant for the erection of a hostel to accommodate 50 students.