THE GIRLS' COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 32, 7 August 1923, Page 10

THE GIRLS' COLLEGE

SITE QUESTION AGAIN

REFERENCE IN PARLIAMENT.

Differences of opinion regarding the site of the new Girls' College were in evidence in the House of Representatives yesterday. The Leader of tho Opposition (Mr. T. M. Wilford) raised the subject by expressing the hope that the Minister would announce that the girls' school would not be erected in the Boys' College ground. It had been reported to him that such a step would be most undesirable.

Sir John Luke- (Wellington North) urged that the construction of the Girls' College should be pushed on. The site had been selected many months ago, and much money had been spent on excavation work. Three or four weeks ago a promise was given that £35,000 would be made available this year for the commencement of the work. The note struck by Mr. Wilford would cause consterna- ™\ « was quite true that protests liad been made against the Boys' College ground site for the Girls' College, but m n' as Ito ether suitable site available, lhe only alternative was the purchase of private property. It was regrettable that they could not avoid encroaching on the Boys' College ground, but he urged the Government to call for tenders for the erection of the college on the site selected, and appealed to Mr. Wilford to stand behind the project. Mr W. H. Field (Otaki) said he had all along contended lhat the Boys' Colege ground tite was unsuitable. The tme would C ome, perhaps, when there would be three of these girls' collects required. He thought n> would W Girls' 3r goi? lde v t0 retain the Plescnt W» * Meg 6 slte ' erect another colege at Newtown, and a further one later on out towards Miramar He had We el; tit ned °\% h,° P° that the So£? Col Th^ 5 TW^ a Sr^t boys' centre. i" s ni C*P were erected on the site havete'h U the, H s' baths would to cJ? b q e, rem? vcd-. He did not want be Cn°/l ay ' l U\ lf another site C°"M Mr Cm ?3 i* t Ould be considered. P w-11 *t ald, he belieyed that Mr. J. ™iw ' 3 f°rmev headmaster of the college, was practically heartbroken over th e decision to erect the Girls' College on the Boys' College grounds. * m I W 'A' uV" ghfc (Wellington Suburbs) trus ed that any difference on the question of site would not mear- that the Government would delay making the money available for the college.