WELLINGTON TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8450, 29 May 1907, Page 5

WELLINGTON TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER OF EDUCATION.

By Telegraph—Press Association

WELLINGTON. May 28

A deputation from the Technical Education Board, Chamber of Commerce, Industrial Association and Trades and Labour Council, and including members of Parliament, waited on the Minister for Educat;on, to-day, to ask that the Government should give a site for technical education purposes at either Mt. Cook or Mt. 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 ask the Government for a site for a 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 WSllington 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 and not particularly to the question of the Mount Cook site. In regard to that site the position was this: The Government felt that on every occasion that land was required for any public purpose in the city of Wellington they had to pay an exorbitant price, and therefore they proposed to keep the Mt. Cook site for further development and extension of needed Government buildings.