MINES SCHOOL LOCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 302, 18 December 1912, Page 8

MINES SCHOOL LOCATION.

WELLINGTON PROFESSOR'S VIEW.

(B7 Telegraph.—Own Correspondent)

WELLINGTON, tJi» day "The mining echooie in Auckland and m Otugo should certainly be combined The sch-00.1 ehould be placed either at Auckland or at Dunedin," stated Pro fessor Laby, of Victoria. College, Welli™! ton, in the course of on interview on mining education facilities in New Zea land. e He docs not favour the establishment T)f a mining school in Wellington* -as a e'mgle school of a true uoivereitv character is as much as New Zealand can possibly afford at present. There k he add*, need of higher technical train' ing. For example, certain officers in .tie Public Service require a knowledge o* engineering (civil, mechanical and elec trical). and in architecture, applied chem ■istry, and wireless telegraphy. If the majority of the Government cadets are m \\ c-Oing-ton, then obvioosly the engineering schools, if <bhe course ie availed trf to any ex-tent by these cadete, nriVht have been in Wellington. Since f he school ie at Chrastoh-urch, however the question of its removal involves many difficulties. There are costly building jn Chrisrtchiirob, and it ie necWvT distribute the special schools of the uni vewtty >n some manner, otherwise it would trad to louver the colleges witL, f special school to inferior rank and ,r must avoid any duplication in the spajj ■teaching. The university has iindertafam more -lEetmctional work than one annum people can pay for if that work » d^