NEED OF HALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 154, 1 July 1936, Page 12

NEED OF HALL.

TRAINING COLLEGE. LACK OF ACCOMMODATION. " A PRESSING WANT." Stating that it was necessary to crowd 430 students into a room built to hold lot) whenever it was necessary to call the students together, the principal of the Auckland Training College. Mr. D. M. Rae. urged upon the Auckland Education Board this morning the need for the provision of an assembly hall at the college. In a covering letter he said that at the last meeting of the Training College board of advice a resolution had been passed, that the Education Board should urge on the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, and on the Department, the pressing need for such a hall. In his letter. Mr. Rae said that there were 430 students at the college. It was frequently necessary to bring the students together, and the largest room in. the college would seat only 150. No fewer than 230 had to stand during the weekly assembly which he had instituted at the college despite the lack of a hail. Some students sat on window-silk; others crowded into the doorway, while others queued up in the passageway. The latter could hear only part of any tliscussion. He mentioned the value that the hall would be to all aspects of the college, social, educational and physical. This view was endorsed in a letter giving the student standpoint, from the president of the Students' Executive. Mr. C. B. Sage. The matter is to be referred to the department by the board.