TOWN-PLANNING AND COLLEGES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 211, 31 May 1919, Page 8

TOWN-PLANNING AND COLLEGES

- i Kj,._Mj..< s Coad will do nolliinu liu.t I liiirin l<) her very deserving omisc if she i turns iiiide. to misrepresent, her natural| allies, of whom ! may justly claim lo be one. M.v only purno.se in writing you is In remove tho false impression created bv her device of pilling I he Girls' Col-

lege against ilio Boys' College, as though they were in totally different case. They are'so in respect of the amount of land at: iFieir disposal. As far as accommodation for classes gops they are equally deficient. If Jtiss Com! knows this, why object to its being pointed out? If she does not, ijhe should be patient with my iiltt'inpl: to enlighten her and the publio generally.—l. am, etc.. I'AKENT. May 30, 19111Sir,—lt is liigh time Hint public attention was called to Uμ delay in providing a suitable building and grounds for the. Girls' College. Attention was drawn at tlie Town-planning Conference to the absurdly small playground of the girls and tlifi extensive" playground of tho boy?.' After much public outcry the Girls' Col-: lege has admitted aH pupils applying for Admission ior the past Hircu or four year.*, with the result that the girls iniw occupy three different building?. This is a ; very unsatisfactory'state of affairs. How is it t'hnt (his school of neveral hundred girls has io crowd into j ttvrpfc different, buildings and to be kept vraitiiur for years, while it seems that Mr. Wilford has only to ask to get a unnl for n. new school at the Tlult? What is the amount of this grant!- . Has n grant been put aside, for building a Miihslanfiii.l girls' school in the city of Wellington? " Could you also tell me, Mr. Editor, what grants have been given to the Hoys' and Girls' Colleges respectively since fhey took free punils? Have the two schools been treated alike even in this matter?—! am. etc.. ANOTHER PAHIOT. . [A copy of the above letlw was submitted to the secretary of the College Governors (Mr. C. 1 , . Powles), who stated that whilst it was true that the pupils of the Girls' College were accommodated in three building, the case was the same in the Boys' College. He could not say anything about the irrant for the new District High School at the Hutt, but- so Car no grant had been "put nside'[ for a substantial girls' college in the city of Wellington, though certain proposals, still in a nebulous state, wore under consideration, a general ide.v of which had already been given the public, There was no harm in mentioning that the board had been Irvine to acquire additional land for the college for a year ■past. The grants to the colleges were on n capitation basis, and both institutions were, treated alike. It may be added that if was announced at ye.-lord ay's meeting of the Collejo lioverncrs that five properties in lirook Street had been purchased with the object of exjendiu? the college. That land, however, was not the properly referred to a? being that which the board were desirous of acquiring.]