OUR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 150, 25 June 1907, Page 4

OUR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

The purchase of the Choral Hall by the University College authorities is an important move in the direction of the new College buildings that have been urgently needed so Icng. It is a matter of common knowledge that it is impossible to carry on the work of the College efficiently or even comfortably .under existing conditions. The large sections of the College work represented by the School of Commerce and the Chairs of Mining and Engineering have positively no fixed location; and the work that is now being done would be impossible without utilising the eounci'iroom. the Registrar's private room, and class-rooms righily devoted to other subjects, whenever they happen to be emnty. Unless the technical side of

the College work is to go to the wall altogether, more space must be found some-xhpre: and the Choral Hall purchase will provide some way out of the difficulty at least for the time. Xo

doubt the building will be utilised c-hieny for the work entrusted to the! ■professors of Mining and Engineering. | for vbic-h it is quite impossible to find space in the existing College- Apart from everything else, the College will now have a chance of initiating the work of the School of Mine?, so long promised and so long delayed; and this alone is an advantage worfh more to the community than the money paid for the Choral Hall. We need hardly say that, as a building, the Choral Hall is not particularly wei! adapted for the purposes of a University College. i But if sufficient ground can be obtained adjacent to this site, no better po=i-

I tion eouJd be found for the new Ur.i----j versity College buildings which we have I been expecting so long. If there is any ! prospect of ultimately securing enough space for this purpose in that vicinity, it would be well to wait till circumstances wii] permit the College authorities to I acquire it. ratheT than surrender the I chance of establishing the College on a permanent bails in so convenient and suitable a locality. In the meantime I the Choral Hall site will help the Col- ! lege out of some of its most pressing difficulties; aad we are glad to see that any doubt aootit the tenure has been dispelled by the promise of Government to grant an absolutely clear title to the I new possessors.