NEW TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1803, 16 July 1913, Page 7

NEW TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

SOME CURRENT IDEAS.

It seems to be conceded by all interested that the Wellington Technical School must sooner or later be provided with more commodious premises nearer the residential centre pf the city. Towards that end a scheme has already been formulated, and will probably be given effect to as soon as the finances can bo arranged. This will give the school much larger and more convenient premises than tho present buildings afford, and also in the vicinity of a public reserve. The possibility that the City Council might deem it advisable in its own interests to resume the block on which the school workshops stand in Mercer -Street has alreadv been mentioned,'and as the Mayor (Mr. .'f. P. Luke) has stated that mofe room is required for the corporation staffs than the Town Hall can afford, it is a matter for consideration as to whether the workshops building mentioned would, not answer the purpose, and so save disfiguring the Town Hall with trumpery additions. Tho council already owns the section between the school workshops and Harris Street (used at present as a coal dump), and the acquisition of the Morcer Street half would give the corporation n street-to-street block adjoining the electric light works. * , , One suggestion which has been mooted is that the whole of the City Engineers Department might bo, transferred to the workshops building with advantage to all concerned, -in which case # the Oitv Treasurer's Department—an inside and badlv-lighted suite—could be transferred to tho3o at present occupied by the Uty Engineer. Later on, as the demand awwe, the frontages to the workshops could be built upon. ' , , i c « Ono authority, with a good deal of foresight, stated that at no very remote period tho Citv Corporation would find it expedient, perhaps even necessary, to acquiro tlia Education Boards propert} to complete the possession of tfha tnangnilar block of which the Town Hall was tho base and the Free Public Librarj tlio apex. The latter building, lie maintained,, had a limited life, and would sooner or later'have to bo rebuilt on a scale than at present, whilst the stead} growth of the city would create -demands I ?or tbe use of tho rest of the land.