Annual report on Basutoland / Colonial Office.

  • Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations
Date:
[1958]
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Credit: Annual report on Basutoland / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    St. Joseph's Training College is a big undertaking, but it is expected to be completed during 1959. Total expenditure under the scheme (which began in 1956) up to the end of 1958 was: Expenditure £ Total Grant £ (i) Equipment grants for Secondary Schools . 4,500 7,500 (ii) Secondary Schools: St. Monica’s 5,500 5.500 Emmaus .... 5,500 5,500 Butha Buthe 5,178 5,500 Mohale’s Hoek 4,950 5,500 Mafeteng .... 5,000 5,500 Mapholaneng . 2,000 5,500 (iii) Training Colleges: Peka. 38,300 38,300 St. Joseph’s .... 4,000 21,000 Eagle’s Peak 5,500 8,000 Basutoland High School - Scheme D.3371 This new scheme for extensions to the Basutoland High School] was started in April 1958. The grant of £14,700 includes £700 for equipment. The extensions include a doubling of the boarding accom¬ modation for girls, an additional boys' dormitory and dining-room and additional staff housing. The work is being undertaken by the Public Works Department, and expenditure up to the 31st December 1958, was £5,795. The girls' dormitory extension has been completed and will be occupied in January, 1959. Good progress has been made with the boys' dormitory. It is expected that the scheme will be completed by mid-1959. The school will then be able to cater for 220 pupils in- stead of the 120 for which it was originally built. Extension of the classroom accommodation was completed in 1957 with Territorial funds.
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