SITE FOR SCHOOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 779, 27 September 1929, Page 11

SITE FOR SCHOOL

CONFUSION AT WHANGAREI AUTHORITIES DISAGREE From Our Own Correspondent WHANGAREI, Today. The building at present in use by the Whangarei High School Board as rooms for manual instruction are situated in the primary school grounds, some distance from the remainder of the High School buildings. The board of governors approached the Minister! of the Hon. H. Atmore, recently, suggesting that the building be sold for removal, a, domestic science classroom built on the site which will subsequently bo the girls’ school, ana a woodwork room erected in the grounds of the boys’ school. The Minister, however, decided that the building should bo removed to the present high school propertlv, and made a grant of £640 to cover the work. The member for Marsden, Mr. Murdoch, was then asked by the board to discuss the question again with the Minister. Last week the contractors for the removal of the old building, having .received instructions to proceed with the work, notified the chairman of the board that they were going to place ’ the building on the Russell Road frontage of the junior high school. The chairman thereupon wired to Mr. Murdoch stating that the board refused to allow - the building to be erected on the site cl*osen by the contractor. Mr. Murdoch, replied that the board’s ultimatum was most unfortunate, and that negotiations would be suspended until the embargo was withdrawn. Otherwise it was probable that the department would withdraw its vote altogether. At a meeting of the board on Tuesday, the chairman’s action in wiring the member for Marsden as indicated was approved, and a resolution carried: —“That Mr. Murdoch be further notified that the chairman’s refusal to allow the contractors to select a site is not an ultimatum, but a means of giving him more time to continue his representation to the Minister; that the boat'd would withdraw its embargo in order to permit further negotiations; and that it was necessary to refuse j the site selected by the contractors, otherwise the work would have been proceeded with, rendering further negotiations futile.”