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HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
ARCHIBALD MACMECHAN, F.R.S.C.
DIRECTOR
HALIFAX, N.S.

May 4, 1918.

JOURNAL
[Newspaper clipping]
EMERGENCY SCHOOL BUILDINGS TO OPEN
Large Reconstruction Shack and Two Portable Edifices Will Be Used For Pupils.
The School Board gas arranged for the opening as a temporary school building of the large shack erected by the Reconstruction Department in the rear of the Alexander McKay School. The building has been renovated and fitted and will be utilized for pupils of the destroyed St. Joseph's School building. The opening will be on Monday.
The Board has also arranged for school accommodation of the pupils of Richmond district by purchase of two portable buildings which can be put together in a few days. These buildings which are being erected in a convenient place in the district have each two rooms and will accommodate in all about 200 pupils. They will be ready earlier next week.
Tenders will be called on specifications for permanent repairs to the Bloomfield High, Chebucto, Oxford and St. Patrick's high school building. Later on tenders will be asked for contracts for erection of three buildings to permanently replace those destroyed, also for contracts on St. Patrick's boys and St. Patrick's girls common school building.



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