DISABLED SOLDIERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 173, 24 July 1942, Page 6

DISABLED SOLDIERS

VOCATIONAL TRAINING

ON PARNEIjL SCHOOL SITE The old Parnell school site, at the junction of Parnell Road, Gittos Street and Augustus Terrace, is to have a new term of usefulness. At the meeting of the Auckland City Council last night it was decided to grant a 50 years' lease at a peppercorn rental to the Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment League. According to information previously given to the council the site will be used for the erection of a vocational training centre for disabled servicemen. A further letter from the league, received last night, stated that the buildings would be of the most modern type, and the work there would enable disabled men to re-es-tablish themselves as active, producer members of the community. The league would supply men to look after the upkeep of the grounds, which will be ornamentally laid out, and would look to the City Council for generous assistance as regards supervision, and, perhaps, a share of the expenses of maintenance. Part of the arrangement is that the league will purchase the freehold of the two sections of land at the corner of Parnell Road and Augustus Terrace, remove tne buildings and preserve these sections as an open area. On the expiry of the lease they will consider any proposition as regards arrangements for handing over the whole area to the council.

The lease was granted subject to the council's approval of the buildings to be erected on the site and that the council had to bear no expense in respect to maintenance.