OTAHUHU “GRAMMAR”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 15

OTAHUHU “GRAMMAR”

PROPOSED SCHOOL DISCUSSED PAPAKURA’S CLAIMS Will the establishment of a secondary school at Otahuhu serve the children of districts further away ? The Auckland Education Board discussed the question yesterday. Mr. J. Patterson said that the new school at Otahuhu would not give relief to pupils living in Papakura and further away. The best thing to do would be to establish a district high school a:; Papakura. “When there is an up-to-date high school at Otahuhu the concrete roads will allow children to be brought from Papakura in a quarter of an hour,” said M.r. E. C. Banks. Mr. T. U. Weills said that when the Council of Education discussed the. proposal to establish a high school at Otahuhu, a strong protest was received and application made for the establishment of a district high school at Papakura. Mr. Patterson: I can't see why we should not have a district high school at Papakura in the meantime. We have a building, and the only expense would be two teachers and furniture. Mr. G. Brownlee said that it was recognised that 950 pupils were too many for the Auckland Grammar School and that another secondary school was needed in the eastern suburbs. Mr. IT. S. W. King thought that if a school could be established, without a great expense, at Papakura before the Otahuhu School was built, it might serve a purpose. It was certain that a grammar school would be put up at Otahuhu because the Minister had approved. A committee consisting of Messrs. Patterson, Boddie and Wells was set up to consider the question and report.