Help pours in for students
(By
our education reporter)
A heartening response has been received to the appeal yesterday for accommodation for students, some of whom have been sleeping in cars and tents after arriving in Christchurch for enrolment this week.
The president of the University of Canterbury Students’ Association (Mr P. F. Dunne) said: “We are not out of the woods yet by a long chalk, but if the offers of assistance keep coming in at the rate they have we should break even.” He said on Monday that more than 1000 students were still looking for places in flats, and many first-year students were arriving in the city without any hope of a place to live. The flatting officer of the Students’ Association, Mr R. Mete Kingi, and the University of Canterbury accommodation officer. Miss A. Borrie, worked long hours vesterday to cope with offers of assistance from the public. Extra telephones were installed to cope with the calls, and Mr Dunne said that the
Student Union building was now unlikely to be used for emergency accommodation. However, permanent places in flats and private board for overseas students w’ere still needed urgently.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33778, 26 February 1975, Page 1
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