WELLINGTON TECHNICAL SCHOOL SITE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 29 May 1907, Page 2

WELLINGTON TECHNICAL SCHOOL SITE.

FI'.UTI.KKK DKPt'TATIOX TO tiOVKHXMKXT. Per Press Association. Wellington, May -iA.

A deputation from Hie Teihuir.il KduI cation Hoard.. Chamber of Commerce, Industrial Association and Trades and Labor Council, and including members of Parliament, waited on the Minister for

IMucalion to-dav lo ask that the (ioveniment should give a site for technical education purposes at either .Mount Cook or Mount Mew, parts of the city where I here arc wide areas of ground on which the g.ml and mental hospital were built bv the general (ioveniment. It was pointed out to the Minister that !K>!> -.lndents attend the city technical schools, and the present accommodation

is utterly inadequate. The Minister said it was almost

'unique to n.-ik the (ioveniment for a site for a technical s-hool. The (ioveniment had insisted ill everv case that localities should provide the site, and Ic did nut think there was I lie least likelihood of any exception being made to that rale in'the case of Wellington. They must I depend upon themselves to provide the

site, and only look to the Covernmeiil for assistance in providing buildings and equipments. That applied generally, not pavticularlv. to the question of the ML Cook, site.' In regard to that site the position was this: the (ioveriummt felt that on every occasion that land was required for any public purpose in the city of Wellington, they hail to pay an exorbitant price, and therefore they proposed to keep the Mount Cook site for further developments and extension of needed Government Imildings.