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rooms arranged around a central hall, together with cloakrooms,
lavatories, and teachers' room.
There are two playgrounds, one for the Senior and Junior boys,
and the other for the Infants and Girls. There is a covered playshed
in each playground.
In the Girls' playground is a Cookery School. The sanitary
conveniences are of the pedestal type. The cistern automatically
discharges each time the closet is used.
For the Infants (Girls) there are 8 compartments and for the
Junior and Senior Girls there are 12 In the boys' playground there
are 4 separate compartments and an urinal measuring 18 linear feet
for the Infants' and 10 compartments and 58 linear feet of urinal
accommodation for the Juniors and Seniors. The heating is by
means of hot water. In the babies' class rooms there are also open
fireplaces. The water is heated by two boilers. The larger boiler
supplies the radiators in the halls and the radiators along the outer
walls of the classrooms The smaller boiler supplies the radiators
along the inner walls of the classrooms. The latter boiler is only
used during very severe weather.
All the classrooms are well lighted ; the light in all instances
coming almost entirely from the left of the scholars. The artificial
lighting is by electricity. In each room are placed inlet and outlet
ventilators.
CENTRAL SCHOOL.
This is a 3 storey building erected in 1905 and enlarged in 1908.
The Infants' Department is on the ground floor, the Junior
department on the first floor, and the Senior (mixed) is on the
second floor.
Originally, the 3 floors were similar to each other in arrangement,
and each department consisted of 7 classrooms arranged round
a central hall, together with lavatories, cloak rooms and teachers'
rooms. In both the Junior and Senior departments 2 classrooms
have been added.
The School, being a recent one, is well lighted, ventilated and
heated.
The light is in all instances from the left, there are inlet and outlet
ventilators in each room, and the building is heated by hot water from