VICTORIA COLLEGE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 16, 14 October 1907, Page 11

VICTORIA COLLEGE.

■' -"'QIITGROWING ITS BUILDING. " ■■ ■ •/(•fe''"'"' - ■'''''•'■''■■ '•*—■ — <~.;;:'.;. :.' . ? dei!otMc)n'tothe;hon. g.fowlds ■ { ' ■ ■ ' </"'■ ■ ' ' ' ■ ".' ' ■ ■ : '-' ; r p . '■■■ '_ . - 1 : . . ■. ,1. , 14.'deputation Representing the.yiotoria College Qduhcii Raited upon ..the Hon.,G..Fowlds, ° i. . Minister>f6'r ; Education, 'on.Saturday'.morn- - a ;' kgjy to.^iafdrm'him;con6erriing. the'develop- j, '. .ment'"and-'yneeds \ofAJthe ■ institution'.- '-v -JEHiHS)intr6duoed';tlietdeputa- 9 ; tion, wliich'cpnsisted^f'Messrs.T.R. Flem-: jj 7 G6yefnbrs),H.' a Von Haast/and.C. P.'Powles s (Registrar). /.- ; K r .:- ■ '< .-'. "h iir. ! Fierning;. ; said tnatthanurnber'of'stu- a ; dents-attho .College had increased since 1889 ; c from,lls;,to',3so,,.and'this"year- , there had been ,° . . an r increase:of: 30,-overlast'year's number.! - v There vivas no class-room large enough for the " English class , which embraced 139 students." ° ■ Classes'-wwere being conducted' with the ' ■ • greatest"difficulty plans of;the build- ° ' ing-had. been-completed.. owing to ■*■ ; want r of., funds. , To;, show that -the■-'increase P of students:was likely to;contirfue, Mr,.Flpm- I ing I said.thoi-Wellington district had. 54,000 w BcholarsiJh its secondary schools;'as against D 53,000 1: in v Aucklahd; 25,000 at-XJhristchurch, ; P and 29;000 at Dunedin.. The deputation did P not ask.;for the of the large hall P ■''■... or.the museum, but'urgod that the unfinished si classr'room'shquld bo fitted up; and two addi- P . tiofial' class-rooms erected; at > the rear of the building. The cost was es'timated at £32,000 ft ■.-■\. Mr.'" Bell said that on-a -previous occasion it when a. deputation waited on the late' Mini- o , : ster to Education; they got more'than they A r : aakedfor,-simply becauso they had asked for <J' the lowest.'possible amount. "The present a; ■.'■."■ needs required to be met at'once. ; in : Mr. ,rpn Ba'ast % said' it was■'vory objection- 'm able'that a class-room should have to Wused 'Ip. ':' by two classes. .■■•••-"'::•■.:-■. ■■■ The; ; Minister, said he would be delighted to cc comply ..with ithe-requests-of tho deputation so ; but the-money for buildings for, educational b\ . '■ purposes this year was well-nigh exhausted, gr ■ He. thought tho Government would be able at , least..tp; find money enough to complote the Til ■ ' upstairs class-room.-He,; would place the th . rnatterof thetwo additional class-rooms'be- tr fore his colleagues with a view to seeing what vi ■ . «rald bo done. , Be 1 ■• ■ -' ■ ■;'■' ' ■ - ■ ■ :