TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 272, 11 August 1921, Page 6

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

WORK MUST GO ON. Efforts are now being made by tho members of the Technical Board and City Council to gather sufficient funds to keep (he work going at the new Technical College at Mount Cook. The decision of the Government that further moneys cannot be spared for this building has created something like consternation, for with some .£15,000 spent, there is a likelihood of port of that expenditure being thrown away altogether if the job cannot be kept going. For instance, an immense quantity of white pine timber is being used for boxing in the concrete. As soon as this fimlier comes into disuse, no matter how it is stacked, it twirls and twists in the weather, until it becomes altogether useless for the work for which it was purchased. Nor is it at all beneficial for partly-constructed walls to be left exposed to fho weather, as a certain amount of deterioration must take place unless each one Is properly cemented , in. It is to "keep things going" until something turns up that the gentlemen interested are canvassing the city. The ifavo- (Hr 51 a Wcig?K. M. 8.), who w s s out and about yesterday doing his best to scare up-some money, said they fairly successful. In some cases they were met with refusals and in others the replies were sympathetic, but <nich> matters had to he referred to headnuarters elsewhere. Still it was good to sea that nearly every man consulted -ealised that an adequate technical college was a live want in Wellington, and a great many are dipping into their pockets to keep tho work going. A full list of donors will appear in a few days.