NO HIGH SCHOOL FOR PAPAKURA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 203, 16 November 1927, Page 13

NO HIGH SCHOOL FOR PAPAKURA

DEPARTMENT’S REFUSAL

APPLICATION TO BE RENEWED “(]AN’T we open a district high school at Papakura without the consent of the department?” asked Mr. J. Patterson at to-day’s meeting of the Education Board. There was a chorus of “No.” The department advised that it was unable to make a favourable recommendation to the Minister on the application for the school. It proposed to defer consideration until further information was submitted as to the views of parents whose children were attending city schools and until the effect of the opening of the high school at Otahuhu was ascertained. Mr. Patterson asked which was the best judge of the necessity for the Papakura school, the department or the board? The school would give service to children who at present were not attending secondary schools, and it would relieve the city schools. “It is far better for a child to have no secondary education than have to travel on the trains,” he declared. Pie moved that the application should be made again to the department. Something would have to be done quickly or parents would be making other arrangements for their children. The chairman, Mr. A. Burns: The district high school education is the cheapest in New Zealand. It was decided to renew the application.