NEW TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 37, 12 August 1921, Page 7

NEW TECHNICAL COLLEGE

CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS.

The campaign to raise a sum of £6000 from the public to enable the work on the new Technical College to proceed is now in full swing, and the Mayor (Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P.) and the Director of the Technical College (Mr. J. H. Howell) are busy every day canvassing' business, people for funds. Already, the amount in hand and in sight totals £1900, made up of £1000 on loan and £900 in contributions promised.

The Mayor stated to a Post reporter yesterday that, considering the difficulties caused through the financial tightness, the response to the appeal on behalf of the college was satisfactory. A suggestion has been made by a former student of, the Technical College, Mr. 0. Dryden, of Lower Hutt, that a special fund, to be contributed to by exstudents of the college, should be set up to assist the appeal. In enclosing £5 5s as his contribution, Mr. Dryden has written,to those in charge of the appeal as follows:—

"The present financial need of the Technical School will undoubtedly appeal to a very large section of thecoramunity. To parents and guardians of existing scholars and vll those interested in the future technical education of their children, the appeal for the 'New Building Fund' will undoubtedly be received sympathetically and meet with a generous response. By business men also, who look to the school for their future supply of skilled and efficient trainees for their shops and offices, the call for assistance will no doubt be quickly answered.

"There are, however, those in our midst, Sir, who will have a special joy in helping the school just now—l refer to the old boys and girls who have gone through the classes there, and have received the benefits which have fitted them for their present positions, and might I suggest that a subscription list be opened for their support exclusively. , "Many who owed i great deal to the Technical School answered the Empire's call in 1914-1918, but some have paid the supreme sacrifice and are not with us to-day, or they would, no doubt, have willingly contributed.

"As one of the old students of the Technical School, I have joy in enclosing my contribution (five guineas) to the New Building Fund, and hope that many more will also render their help." The Mayor stated that the suggestion made by Mr. Dryden had been accepted, and all former students- of the Technical College 'Were, invited to subscribe whatever they could towards a special fund in aid of the. new college.