NEW TECHNICAL COLLEGE
SLOW .WORK ON FOUNDATIONS,
Very 6low work on the foundations for the now Technical College building at Mount Cook was reported to the College Board last night. It was stated that the number of prisoners engaged in building tho foundations was only rv'few.Mr. L..E. Partridge asked whether tho chairman tould give the board any idea when the superstructure would ho commenced.
The chairman said that, the progress was so slow that he could give no idea as to when the building itself would be commenced. . ,
A member: Could we not ask fo rmoro prison labour?
Mr. J. Shand: Will the foundation stone be laid by Christmas twelve months?
The chairman: I can't even tell you that. '
It was decided that members of the board should make a visit of inspection to the site. "We'll take representatives of the Press with us," said the chairman, "so that they will be able to say how slowly the work is progressing."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 211, 1 June 1920, Page 5
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161NEW TECHNICAL COLLEGE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 211, 1 June 1920, Page 5
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