BOARD SUPPORTS HIGH SCHOOL FOR PAPAKURA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 1

BOARD SUPPORTS HIGH SCHOOL FOR PAPAKURA

MANUREWA’S APPLICATION T)APAKURA will have a district - 1 - high school if the Auckland Education Board has any influence with the Minister of Education. 0 A favourable report on the proposed establishment of the school was received to-day from Mr. J. Patterson, who said that approximately 70 children would attend. It would be a two-teacher institution to start with, and a building was available now, The chairman, Mr. A. Burns: How will this school affect the grammar school? Mr. H. S. W. King: Not at all. The high school can go ahead straight away, but the grammar school cannot be established for a year or two. The Manurewa Town Board forwarded a copy of a letter addressed to the Minister, urging the establishment of a district high school at Manurewa. The chairman: Is there rivalry between Manurewa and Papakura? Mr. Patterson: I don’t think so. Mr. E. C. Banks said that a district high school should be established at Papakura at the beginning of the New Year and a list of the promised pupils should be obtained. Mr. King said that the Manurewa children should go to Papakura School if it was established. About 160 children from south of Manurewa went to the Auckland grammar schools now. “If the high school is established Manurewa pupils would not get a free pass to Auckland,” said the chairman. Mr. T. U. Wells said that the proposal was turned down flatly by the Council of Education, mainly through opposition from Pukekohe and Manurewa. It was doubtful if the Minister would grant the application in view of that and the chief inspector’s report. “In all the years I have been here there has never been a proposal to establish a high school with such prospects and promise,” said Mrs J. Boddie. Mr. Patterson said that it was not a fair thing to expect a child to travel 20 or 30 miles when education could be given in his own district. Both representatives of the board on the Council of Education, Messrs. Banks and Wells, said they were in favour of the proposal and the board decided to apply to the Minister.