NEW TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 162, 3 April 1919, Page 7

NEW TECHNICAL COLLEGE

THE MAYOK QEATIFIED. ■Spenkiiig yesterday.to a Dominion reporter on the settlement of the Wellington Technical' College difficulty, which has occupied the attention of various local bodies for seven or eight/ years pust, tho Mayor. (111 , . J. I'. Luke) «iid that he wns particularly pleased that tho Government had at last made the necessary arrangements for , tho establishment in Wellington of an-adequate Technical College. i\ : o one in Wellington had more sincerely and constantly (liiplorcd the falling oil in the secondary industries. in this city, and he believed thnt the Technical College was the handmaid of such , industries.'find that, given a well-equipped and thoroughly up-to-date Technical College with a good staff, tharo would a littlo later bo a revival in cerlain industries which, for one reason or another, had been allowed to lanKiiish. The question of getting a new Rcluiol had interested several of tho. local bodies for (i long time past. About six jpftrs ago the City Council decided to subsidise such a college to the extent of ifclO.OW. Comparatively lccontly tho council reaffirmed its decision, milking tho the subsidy ,£15,000 (in three annual payments' of .£SOOO each), provisionally on the' Education Board handing back to the city corporation the block of land in Mercer Street at present occupied by the college workshops' and lawn teniiis court. Thnt was loiw since agreed upon, and now the Government is doing its part, he hoped that, no time would be lost in getting m with the work.

The block of land in Mercer Street was budlv needed by the council ' for other purposes, and was much too valuable u section to be used an a ■ lawn tennis court, though, of '.'ourse, playgrounds must be provided for Hip students.'