MASTERTON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 265, 5 August 1919, Page 8

MASTERTON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

Sir.—ln Saturday's Dominion your correspbndent "Masterton Parent 6erv ™, a Rood purpose if enly to impress the Education Department with the fact that tne Masterton people are really in earnest regarding the immediate need for a leciinical Irish School, embracing academic, commercial, industrial, and home science courses of study. Again, if hostel aceommodation for Jprls for hoys a P? playing areas sufficient ivere not considered important factors, the area (ten acres) of land so generously donated by Mr. C. E. Daniell, would not have been Questioned.. It is only the fact that the local committee (elected for the furtherance of the Technical High School proposal) and the Director ot education are in agreement that a larger area is desirable that tlio matter of the purchase of ail additional five to ten acres from Mr. Daniell came up at all. J. or twenty-two years Mr. Darnell has been an active member of the present Masterton Technical School Board of Managers, and is a keen, unselfish, educationist. On no occasion has he suggested that .lie Education Department should purchase this land from him; nor has he paced any particular valuation on the On two public occasions Mr. J. Al. o * a " dine did state what he personally believed the area to be worth; but in his official correspondence with the Department Mr. Coradine has been careful not to state any value, nor, indeed, has any definite value been placed by him on it. This, he argues, is purely a matter lor I nerctiation between the Department s experts and Mr. Daniel]. With his long experience of public affairs and anticipating, possibly, the rise of a pro bono publico (or a Masterton parent), Mr Coradine, chairman, advised the local committee, on Juno 24 last, not to USU [P the function of an expert valuer, .in consequence the only ofncial communication tliat Mr. Coradine has had with the Education Department .directly concernhut the purchase of this additional area of land, condemned by your correspondent. stntes, inter alia,;— "1 be extra area of land required, five acres or ten acres, is available; and the committee is of the opinion that tho Department shouldjiegotiate for its purchase directly with the owner (Mr. C. E. Darnell), who is prepared to negotiate with the Department. To this letter no reply has been received. "Masterton Parent and the public generally may bo assured that when Dr. .'Anderson visits Masterton tms week to inspect sites, no effort will be made to press any particular area on the Department The conniittee is anxious to do onlv the best for the community as a whole.—l am, etc., Trwrr • D E. LESLIE,

Hon. Sec.'for the Committee. Technical School, Masterton, August 1, 1919

Sir-Being a regular reader of your paper in the public reading room here, T was disappointed to find that. Saturday's issue was ousted from its place on the stand assigned to it. I went on Snudar expressly to see the paper, but it was still absent from its file. I have since learnt that there was a letter of creat interest about the proposed Masterton High School. I may say tlua >e tho first time I have been unable to bmi vour paper in the reading-room.—L am, et °", CONSTANT RBADEK. Masterton. August 4, 1919. rinquiry by a Dominion representative disclosed the fact that a copy of Saturday's Dominion had been placed on the file by- the librarian. Apparently someone subsequently misappropriated it. |