The Archive · 1933

New Public School for Girls

Plans Approved for Building on Victoria Nuring Home The Municipal Council on September 20 considered a number of educational matters which were covered. by the minutes of the Edi ation Board meeting of Septembe 15, On that date the Board recommended the acceptance of final Hlans for the new Public & Thomas Hanbury School for Girls, which to be erected on the former Vie~ ria Nursing Home site, Range Woosung. roads, The Education Board not only <xamined the plans and a wooden model of the proposed building, but deliberated upon the arrangement of the building, which includes, accommodation for boarding" 24 Pupils, as provided in the terms of the Hanbury Trust, The Superintendent of Education stated that the classrooms Would mostly be of standard size, though a few would be larger thin the average. 'The present, enrolments in the Boone Road School and the Thomas Hanbury School for Girls totalled 48%, 80 that in. replacing these schools by one new building, sion for 600 pupils left little' room expansion. A cookery room ied in the building and fence laboratories were cluded. "The hall, with geating accommodation at Toast 390 pupils, would be used sainly a5 a Avmnasiom but algo as an assembly hall. The Council approved.

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