HIGH SCHOOL WANTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 584, 9 February 1929, Page 6

HIGH SCHOOL WANTED

TAURANGA DEPUTATIONS TO MINISTER EAST COAST RAILWAY REQUEST (from Our Quit Correspondent) TAURANGA, Friday. the d Hr,n ta w tUken of the visit or tno lion. 11. Atmore to Tauranga for ' BP B ta V' on | ! ait u P° n bint. luessrs. D. c. Robbins and R p Andrews, representing the Chamber of Commerce and the School Committee introduced the subject of a liijh school at Tauranga. fcU R was pointed out that there is no similar institution for secondary edueation in the Bay of Plenty. The rapid development of the district and increase of population stressed the necessity of such a school. Mention was made that the Hon. R. A. Wright as Minister of Education, promised mat when the Government decided to start building operations in connection with high schools, the first to be erected would be the one at Tauranga. The Minister stated he was aware of the promise of his predecessor, and if it was decided to go on with erecting high schools he would see that that promise was honoured. However, he had been getting information as to junior high schools, and was inclined to favour that system. He would be m a position by the end of the month to announce the policy of the Government on this question. On behalf of the Bay of Plenty hovelopraent League, the president, Mr. B. C. Robbins, laid before the Minister the matter of immediately going on with the extensions of the Bast Coast Main Trunk railway eastward from Taneatua. In doing so he stressed the wonderul success of the present line and the prospects of greater success if extended to the fertile districts in the Opotiki County. The Minister promised to bring the matter before his colleagues. Attention was drawn to the neglect of having the site of the great GatePa battle suitably commemorated. The speakers said it was a disgrace to the Dominion that the site of such an important and historic event should be allowed to go into oblivion and asked Mr. Atmore to interest the Government in having it marked by some memorial. Mr. Atmore expressed himself as keenly sympathetic with the idea and said it was of national importance. During the Minister’s visit he was taken over the schools and shown the site for the high school. He also looked over the Citrus Fruit Association’s packing sheds.