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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 118, 12 February 1926, Page 10

Out of that, £50,000 had been spent on tlie new girls’ college, and to-day the conditions there were reasonably sufficient. Then £58,000 had been spent on the Technical College for 600 boys and girls to carry out their education of a practical type, in addition to the site. There was also £lO,OOO for the memorial hall for the college, and some £20,000 for a high school at the. Hutt, which should relieve the Wellington College. ■ Mr. Cresswell: That only made, a difference of thirty pupils. ■ • Sir James Parr thought they could pass the excess pupils over to the Technical College. He admitted they could not take pupils away who were, in their last year. Then there was £30,000 for the junior high school at Coutts Street, making £218,000 for Wellington and its surroundings for higher education, out ot the comparatively small vote for the year, and he could truly say thev had got away with a pretty good swag. All New Zealand wanted assembly halls for secondary schools, but his' policy was to provide them only when the greater part of the cost was obtained locally. He would look into the matter of additional ground for the Thorndon College, and the position of the Wellington East Girls’ College, and do his best. He could not. help thinking that what was wanted was a new college for bovs. Thev would have to make some temporary arrangement for the current year, and ascertain the best method of coping with the position. He would bring the various matters they had dealt with before Cabinet, and was sure the best possible solution would be arrived at.