Institute ponders plans for hostel
The Christchurch Technical Institute council is considering turning the former Te Aranga Maori trade-trainees’ hostel in Ensors Road into a residential seminar centre.
The council’s buildings committee decided to turn the recreation block adjacent to the hostel into a day seminar centre, at a cost of about S4OOO. A final decision on the hostel itself is still to be made. Mr I. W. Hall, an associate director of the institute, said work on the day centre would start in the next six weeks. This would include the covering of concrete floors,
and the installation of kitchen facilities. The new day seminar centre would be used by such groups as the Vocational Training Council, and the industry training boards. Mr Hall said that at present the institute did not have enough space’ to cater for all the requests it received from groups to hold seminars there. The Government decided last year to close Te Aranga and Te Kaihanga hostels but later reversed its decision on Te Kaihanga hostel in Hansons Lane and agreed to let it remain open on a trial basis for 12 months.
Institute ponders plans for hostel
Press, 20 February 1979, Page 7
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