Plans Called For £300,000 Hamilton Teachers' College

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29237, 22 June 1960, Page 9

Plans Called For £300,000 Hamilton Teachers ' College

(New Zealand Prett AMociation)

HAMILTON, June 21. The formal engagement of an Auckland firm of architects to prepare plans for a £300,000 teachers’ college at Hillcrest was approved at the South Auckland Education Board’s meeting today. The college is required for occupation in February, 1963. The estimate of £300,000 is exclusive of site work and services. The secretary-manager (Mr K. C. M. Cockerill) said the buildings of the proposed university and teachers college would be constructed on the site, with common playing grounds. ; . . Mr Cockerill said the optimum size of the present Hamilton college was set at 450, but it was calculated that 520 students would

have to be catered for next year t in South Auckland. By 19S8 that total would be 650, or 200 in ex- , cess of the -accommodation * planned for the Hillcrest college. ; The superintendent of education I at Auckland <Mr L. Le Fz Ensor) . had infomed him that while it ■ was true that negotiations for a North Shord site had been begun, ■ no decision had been made where . a new college was to be sited. Mr J. H. Thomson (chairman) ; said he would not like to see a I second college in Hamilton, but - the matter of university study had i to be taken" into account The board decided to recommend that i a new college should be sited in - the Rotorua-Bay of Plenty area.