ACCOMMODATION FOR STUDENTS

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32392, 3 September 1970, Page 2

ACCOMMODATION FOR STUDENTS

“It is to be hoped that the Government will increase the amount of money available for subsidies and thus reduce the time lag between enthusiastic collection of money and final availability of halls of residence,” said Miss J. N, Wallace when presenting a report from the subcommittee get up to study student accommodation.

She said that many organisations raised money knowing that subsidies were available and then had to go on a waiting list “It’s a wait until eternity as far as some organisations are concerned," said Miss Wallace. Another subject discussed at the conference dealing with halls of residence was the complete lack of training facilities for institutional management.

Lady Powles. a member of the Wellington Branch of the Federation of University Women, proposed a resolution, which was later passed,

in which she suggested that a letter be sent to the Minister of Education (Mr Taiboys) referring back to a resolution of the 1964 conference in which N.Z.FU.W. urged the Government to make adequate provision for the training of personnel for institutional management. Miss Wallace said the committee had also advised waiting until the present halls under construction were completed and operating fully, before trying to assess the need for any further halls or for any other types of student residence.

A Tauranga delegate said that catering training schools had been provided at several technical Institutes to train chefs for tourist purposes, but that there was a great difference in the needs of tourist and institutional catering. "Tourism makes up only 0.43 per cent of the G.N.P., and I am sure halls of residence and other institutions bring in a greater sum of money," she said. A six-week course dealing with the training of such personnel as matrons and wardens of institutions was to be ’set up in 1971 at the Central Institute of Technology at Petone, but it was still waiting for approval from the Department of Education, said a Wellington delegate.