BOOTH MEMORIAL OFFICERS' TRAINING COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 78, 2 April 1914, Page 8

BOOTH MEMORIAL OFFICERS' TRAINING COLLEGE

OPENING CERTIMOXY TO-DAY. The General Booth Officers' Training College, Wordsworth-street— a building iv which thn training of oificers for the Salvation Army is to h(> conducted— >vas formally opened this afternoon. The new college is a handsome and substantial building. It occupies a section having a frontage of 101 ft to Wordsworth-street by a depth of 330 ft. The building stands back from the street frontage. The front land is -laid out in three terraces. The slopo of the ground has enabled the architects to provide a commodious basement floor in front. In this part of the building there is a central reception room divided in. the centre by a folding partition. Provision is made for the accommodation of' 50 students— 2s women students and I&fc same number of men students. From thfe basement there are stairways leading to a large room above. On each side of ■ffie main entrance are spacious reception xooms for botfi sexes, whilst beyond is the , lecture hall — 51ft by 2ofS — capable of seating 150 people. On both sides of the hall, there are class-rooms, teachers' rooms, whilst beyond there are two dining-rooms. Ou the first floor^ are the sleeping cubicles, Bft 6in by 6ft 6111 each. The building is finished in fed brick and stucco. ,The architects were Messrs'. Fearn and Quick, and the builders Messrs. Hunt and M 'Donald. Tins land and . building cost about £16,000. The building was formally declared open by the Won. F. M. B. Fisher, iiinister of Customs. The other speakers wttfe the Prime Minister, Right Hon. ,W. F. Massey ; Hon. H. D Bell, Minister of Internal Affairs ; Sir John Find1 lay, the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), and Commissioner Richards.