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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 47, 23 August 1895, Page 3

At a troll-attended meeting held at the Tory-street Foresters' Hall last night, the Ber. J. Crewes. in an address on Heads," .pleaded for technical education as against the University system. Resolutions were oarried by the meeting as follows :— l. That as we infer from Dr. Maogregor's report that the lunatio asylums of the colony are dangerously orerorowded, this meeting would urge the Government to arrange f or proper classification of the insane in the asylums, and to provide inoreased asylum accommodation immediately; and, further, should the new building on Mount Cook be found suitable for temporary accommodation for harmless luuatios, we would approve of its being used for suoh purpose. 2. That this meeting would suggest to the Government that should the Government decide to grant the Mount Cook Gaol cud grounds to be used for educational purposes, it should '. be as a Teohnioal College, to be the centre of a proper system of technical ednoation for the oolony. 3. That the foregoing resolutions be forwarded to the Hon. the Minister, for Education, to be presented to the Government. ' ' W. 7. Snortt will sell to-morrow, furniture andnundrie*. Biroßi stock-taking, which takes 'place in a few days, I shall offer the following extraordinary bargains :— Ladies' last season's three-quarter jackets, worth 19s 6d, for 2s lid, -25=1 for 5s lid ; a few lined clonks, 37a 6d for 10s 6d ; ladies' skirts, 3s 6d for Is 6d ;