WOMEN UNDERGRADUATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 41, 17 February 1920, Page 4

WOMEN UNDERGRADUATES.

i , HOSTEL MAY BE FOUNDED. The establishment of a hostel for women students was considered by the Auckland University College Council yes- j terday in connection ■with a proposal to purchase a houee in Princes Street. Sir. T. W. Leys (chairman) eaid that if the negotiations for the purchase were successful the house, in his opinion, should be made into a women student's club, containing rooms for study, facilities for cooking light lunches, and so forth. A hostel was much needed, but the council's hands were already full, and the houee in question was not large enough for that purpose. Professor A. P. W. Thomas suggested that the building could be used for central administrative offices. Professor H. W. Segar said that all the other colleges in the Dominion had hostels, and had made a beginning with houses no bigger than this one. After further discussion it was decided to make the house, if it were acquired, into quarters for women students and to provide for administrative offices, as originally proposed, in the plana for the new Arts Building on the Metropolitan Ground. The question of providing a hall in the new building for students' social gatherings was also brought up, and it was decided that the essential departments required under the new building scheme would probabl3 - absorb the whole of the building grant, and any extenßion in the direction suggested by the students mus,t he left for future consideration. It was stated that no college in New Zealand possessed a building of the description asked for by the Auckland etudente.