TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1920, Page 3

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

TRIBUTE TO MR. LA TROBE,

"The opening of the session was marked by one of the most important changes in the history of the institution," stated the Director of the Wellington Technical College (Mr. J. H. Howell) in his annual report. "Mr. La Trobe, who for fourteen years guided the fortunes of the college from the day 6of small things until it came to rank as one of the largest educational institution* in the Dominion, accepted the important post in the Education Department, of Superintendent of Technical Instruction for the Dominion. Mr. La Trobe's period of office was marked by great developments, in particular by the establishment of the Technical High School, which is now the largest and. most important department of the college. Its foundation and growth, in spite of the extraordinary disadvantages under which it has laboured, is a great testimony alike to the courage and patience of the Djrector and the staff and to the demand for such an institution to meet present-day needs. Before he resigned, Mr. La Trobe had the satisfaction of knowing that the long-continued struggle to Becure a worthy site for the new college was at last brought to a successful issue by the grant from the Government of four acres on Mount Cook."