TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 460, 15 September 1928, Page 13

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

NEW WING ADDED BUILDING NEARING COMPLETION AVitli the completion of the new wing costing £II,OOO, pupils of the Seddon Memorial Technical College will be provided with greatly increased facilities. Tho work will be finished shortly, and the assembly hall, which is the most important addition, will b© officially opened on October 1. Mr. G. Baildon, Mayor of Auckland, and Mr. A. Burns, chairman of the Auckland Education Board, have been requested to speak at th© opening ceremony. Th© new wing consists of th© assembly hall, two class-rooms, a gymnasium and a board room. Of the total cost, £2,750 was granted by the Education Department, the Board of Governors having to provide the remainder. Bequests from th© late Mr. W. J. Binns and the late Mr. Richard ITardley, of Auckland, who left £5,000 and £1,500 respectively for the extension of buildings, have helped considerably. Th© assembly hall will accommodate 950 people, and is built more in tho shape of a theatre. It will be provided with a fireproof projection room to b© used for the screening of motion pictures on educational lines. The principal, Mr. G. J. Park, hopes that suitable films may be made available. Beneath th© hall is the gymnasium where physical instruction c lasses will b© held in th© afternoon, and at nights for evening pupils. For the latter, a cafetaria and two classrooms will give added facilities.