CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 230, 27 September 1940, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

TRAINING COLLEGE.

(To the Editor.) The military authorities and Mr Moody in particular are very determined to obtain the Auckland Training College as a military hospital. Is it a fair thing? Everyone knows the years of struggle and the fight the Education Board and college staff had before the college became an actual building. An 4 now Mr. Moody says the Hospital Board must have it. One knows all the moner that wat? spent on this love?y building and the thought that was put into it Is it all to go for naught! We all know that four good plain walk and a roof, and plenty of fresh air and all conveniences, are all that are needed ia. a military hospital; in fact, the plainer the better. Now, why has this building not been put up in the last 12 months, even since the influenza scare, instead of waiting until we have another epidemic and then, as before, having to rush round and acquire any and every building they can get? Surely they knew when they had soldiers in camp that these epidemics come, if onlv measles and. influenza. We know the boys must be looked after, and looked after well, but an expensive building like the college will not make or mend them any quicker or better than a plain hospital that would cost one-third the amount to build. Then what about the cost of shifting the college equipment and where will they find another building? Surely our children need teachers who are properly trained if they are to do them justice. Let the Hospital Board get to work at once and build for themselves instead of grabbing what others have taken years to acquire for themselves. A STUDENT'S MOTHER.