TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2094, 31 May 1907, Page 3

TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

SITE WANTED IN WELLINGTON. Press Association. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A deputation from tho Technical

Education Board, Chamber of Commerce, Industrial Association, and Trades and Labor Council, and including members of Parliament, waited on the Minister for Education yes—terday, to ask that the Government should give a site for technical education purposes at either Mount Cook or Mount View, parts of the city where there are wide areas of ground, on which a gaol and mental hospital were built' by the general Government. It, was pointed out to the Minister that 900 students attend • the city technical school, and the present- accommodation is utterly inadequate. The Minister said it was almost unique to as'k the Government for a site for technical school. The Government had insisted in every case that the localities should provide the site, and he did not think there was the least likelihood of any exception being made to that rule in the case of Wellington. They must depend upon themselves to provide the site, and only look to the Government ■ for assistance in providing buildings and equipments. That applied generally, not- particularly, to the question of Mount Cook site. In regard to that site, the position was this, the Government felt that- on every occasion the land was required for any public purpose in the city of Wellington they had to pay an exorbitant price, and tliereforo they proposed to keep Mount Cook site for the further development and extension, if needed, of Government buildings.