NEWTOWN SCHOOL SITE
CITY MUST PAY FOR IT. . Mr. G. Mitchell, M.P., v along with' other people in South Wellington, has urged the Minister of Education to reserve tlife Newtown School site, soon to be vacated, either for Government buildings or a publio park. The Minister of Education has given Mr. Mitchell the following reply :-"The Education Department is arranging for the acquisition of two sites in lieu oi the present Newtown School site, and, as the expenditure of considerable Government moneys is involved,, the Government is .not prepared to consider favourably a proposal to hand over the present site lor local city purposes as a park unless compensation be paid to the education funds of the Dominion. When the present site is no longer required for school purposes the question of what may bq done with it will receive further consideration."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 279, 19 August 1920, Page 4
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142NEWTOWN SCHOOL SITE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 279, 19 August 1920, Page 4
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