NO ASSEMBLY HALL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 April 1927, Page 5

NO ASSEMBLY HALL

TECHNICAL COLLEGE NEED At a meeting of the board of managers of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, held yesterday, * the chairman, Mr. H. S. W. King, brought up the question of the provision of an assembly hall and further accommodation for the college. He had written to the Minister of Education, again bringing the matter before the department. The letter states that the board has cash in hand or assets easily convertible amounting to over £B,OOO to be used for building a hall. In addition, the board has due to it the sum of £750, being the balance owing from subsidies, and the terms were that this should be paid when the building of the hall was begun. Since Sir James Parr, when Minister of. Education, had authorised the preparation of plans and the calling of tenders, the board claims that it is entitled to payment now. The letter further states that there is no secondary school approaching the size of this one which is without a place in which the pupils can be assembled. There is no room In the present building sufficiently large to accommodate even a quarter cf the day pupils. The Minister is urged to endeavour to persuade Cabinet to advance a sufficient sum «o enable a hall to be built and classroom and other accommodation to be extended.