TAKAPUNA GRAMMAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1055, 20 August 1930, Page 10

TAKAPUNA GRAMMAR

MOVE FOR ASSEMBLY HALL FAIR TO BE HELD The raising of funds to provide an ! assembly hall at the Takapuna Grammar School is the objective of a sale of w*ork which will be conducted in the school grounds tomorrow and Friday. Parents are appealed to from the aspect that Takapuna Grammar must have a hall worthy of the school if it is to rank beside the four city schools and to exert an influence comparable to them. The committee set up to further the object has circularised the parents on the proposal on these lines: The pupils are at a vital and an impressionable age. where influences for good are lasting and potent. A school hall is the focus of school life, the portion of the school which bears the most sacred and lasting of school memories, and which binds the pupils with an indissoluble tie. At present the pupils of our Grammar School must assemble in one of the corridors —surely a poor substitute for a hall. “Physical training for both boys : and girls is very incomplete in the winter- term owing to the wet state; of the ground and the lack of indoor accommodation, so that the provision of a school hall would prove a great boon in this direction. The erection of a hall would be of great service in promoting a sense of fellowship in the recently-formed Ex-pupils’ Association, a body which is bound to exert a potent influence for good in the community later on. “The lack of a sufficiently commodious and central hall for school concerts, lectures and displr*ys has been acutely felt in the past, and the provision of a school hall in the grounds w'ould be most valuable. The benefit of a school hall to the corporate life of the school is inestimable, and our Takapuna Grammar School, exerting the influence \it does on the life of ] our children, should have the advan- . (.age accruing from such an addition |,to the school/?