PROTEST AGAINST DELAY
Home Science Hall At Otago University
(Hew Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN. June 23.
A formal protest over the delay in accepting a tender for the new six-storey Home Service residential hall in Dunedin is to be made to the Minister of Education (Mr Skoglund) by the Otago University Council.
The tenders were sent on to the Department of Education last April and the university had hoped to have students in residence in. the new hall in 1960. said the vice-chancellor, Dr. F. G. Soper, at a meeting of the council today.
The hall will have single bedroom accommodation for 109 women students.
“I have been to Wellington to try to find any causes for the delay, for the plans are approved,” he said. “It is more than disappointing as so much of the money obtained for the building was given by various organisations and the public.
“There is a possibility of an increase in costs in the meantime, and we have to find half of any increase.”
About £60.000 was raised bv a public appeal, and in July, 1955 the Government promised a £1 for £1 subsidy for the building Last September, the plans and sp 'incations were completed and permission to tender was granted.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28929, 24 June 1959, Page 16
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