SALE OF SCHOOL SITE
New Central Fire Station BOARD MEMBER PROTESTS On a recent occasion the Clyde Quqy School site was offered to the Wellington Fire Board as a site for a new central tire brigade station. At yesterday’s meeting of the Education Board, Colonel T. W. McDonald said that he wished to accord his absolute dissent to the proposed sale of this school site, and he wished that dissent recorded in the minutes of the board. On another occasion he would take the opportunity to voice his protest more fully.
Subsequently Mr. McDonald informed a “Dominion” reporter that he was opposed to the sale on the grounds that at such a price (£25,000) it was practically giving the site away. It might be a fair market price as property was to-day, but why offer It for sale at all at this the worst time in the economic history of the Dominion, and so allow another body to benefit through an economic accident. If the best price was wanted the land should, he continued, be put up for public sale.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 70, 15 December 1932, Page 8
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