COLLEGE HOSTEL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18918, 5 February 1927, Page 15

COLLEGE HOSTEL.

♦ AN AUCKLAND SCHEME. [THE PRESS SpecUl Service.} AUCKLAND, February I. From the. beginning of tho 1027 s«abiuit, aid even earlier iu fact, the Auckland University CoHc«o is to have a students' hostel. The college _ lu» long needed one and now has obtained it virtually without capital expenditure. . The collcj-o has enteral into a thico rears' uyreement with Mr It. Gordon Griffith, proprietor of "Tho Mansion, a larjK- private hotel, to provide niaio .students with full !*oard and lodj-iiti*. Mr Griffith has aUo taken charge, of tho restaurant in the Students" Union building at the colic:,','. Hrcal-fast and supper Vill be served at the hostel and lunch and dinner at the Union, except at week-ends and in the lons vacation. In rospor.se t«> a circular sent out at *he end of the last term ."'> students agreed to Co into residence in the hostel at the beginning of this session and a numlier of them have already taken up their quarters there. The college authorities hope that before tho end nf the vear t!in number will be about i<yi.