Lincoln College Plans Buildings To Cost $3.6m

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31662, 24 April 1968, Page 10

Lincoln College Plans Buildings To Cost $3.6m

Buildings and services to a total value of $3,658,900 are planned by the Lincoln College Council in the next five years. This does not include the cost of land, as the college does not expect to have to buy any in that period.

Included in the plans are four residential halls, each to accommodate 84 students, plus residential houses to take

up to 60 students and accommodation for 20 single staff members.

The college also wants to build teaching workshops, lecture rooms, library extensions, an administration block and a student union complex.

A deputation from the council is to wait on the University Grants Committee before the next council meeting to ask for a subsidy of $50,000 on the first stage of the student union complex, which will be the W. H. Gillespie Memorial Hall.

The college already has $lOO,OOO towards the building, of which $50,000 was contributed by the Lincoln College Students’ Association.

At the same meeting the deputation will ask when the college is going to get its subsidy on the $260,000 residential hall for Colombo Plan students. The subsidy should have been provided three years ago, said Mr D. S. Max, at the college council meeting yesterday, but the Ministry of Works lost the plans at a crucial stage. The plans have since been found. The residential hall, which will house 84 students, is’ needed by 1969-70. The major’ grant will come from Colombo Plan funds.

Pr M. M. Burns, the college principal, told the council that no residential halls had been approved since 1966. i