4 March 1913 was merely confirmation: 88 votes for a central graded school, 361 votes for two separate schools. In April 1913, the Board asked Council for $14,500 for extraordinary expenses: $6,000 to buy a school site on Blk. 8 D.L. 555 (the location of Altamont Private Hospital of 27 Street), $5,000 to build two schools, $1,500 to equip them, and $2,500 to clear and fence the properties. .As an afterihought, the Board asked for money to buy a school site at Caulfeild. That area was growing too. It is one thing to ask for money; it is another to get it. By August, nothing had been done, and 27 parents representing 60 school age children petitioned the Board to build a school on D.L. 237 "immediately". Indeed, so much time had elapsed bet'ween the calling of tenders to clear the site and the granting of the contract that the successful bidder wanted more money. The bush had grown that much in the interval. He must have had a case as the Board paid him an extra $50 on a $398 contract. The Board had called for tenders, and that same August, it granted a contract to the lowest bidder, William Watts for a "New School" with a stipulation that he complete the building by the first of November. That left two months to cover but a Mr. Dufeau was prepared to rent a room for $25 a month. The Church and Mr. Dufeau took care of the Hollyburn children but not those in the Dundarave area. For them space was rented in the Conservative Hall where they would remain until a second school could be built. At this time too there was a great furor over the Gordon Road site. Suddenly, or so it seemed, there was a house in the middle of the school lot. Who had put it there? Who had authorized it - if any one had? What was to be done? In October, one J.E. Durbin wrote to explain everything. He had had a chat with John Lawson and W.C. Thompson. Neither of them could see any reason why he should not build on the school lot, since it was sitting idle and likely to remain so for some time. When the time came he could and would move the house. Mr. Lawson and Mr. Thompson were not only members of the School Board, they were influential men in the community. The letter was filed. A discreet time later Mr. Durbin was asked to move his house and did so. On 24 November 1913, the New School opened for business but without the jubilation one might have expected. There had been a nasty squabble over the furnace. Which was not the "Round Oak" that had been specified, and that had led to threats and counter-threats of law suits; the contractor, perhaps as a result, had beer; dilatory in getting the school in shape to open. Even success can lose its savour. Not until September 1914 was there more pressure to expand. Then Mr. Bailey of Caulfeild sent the Board a list of 18 school age children in the area and asked for a school. Caulfeild was and is a delightful area but it has very little flat land, and certainly none that was available for a school. Mr. Caulfeild himself was in Europe, leaving the Board to negotiate with his agent Mr. Kettle. An agreement was reached that Mr. Caulfeild's home should be used as a school. One gathers that, when the news reached Europe, the very heavens shook. A directive arrived by cable that under no circumstances should the Caulfeild home be used as a school. Mr. Kettle provided the use of his own home for three months at a rent of $10 a month, an interesting figure as Mr. Dufeau had been Given