The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1883.

Evening Star, Issue 6262, 11 April 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1883.

Therk is mismanagement somewhere in the matter o! the erection of the new High School for boys. The contract for the building appears to have been entered into by the Commissioners, and was certainly undertaken by the contractor, Undbf the idea that the whole site Would he available; but only a portion of this has been, or is so, and the contractor is unable to proceed with the rear block of the building, and has had to work in the portion now approaching completion under very exceptionable difficulties, which casual inspection will demonstrate. It was supposed that the heW LtiUfttic Asylum at Seacliff Would have been completed long before this time, so that all the lunatics might have been removed there from Dunedin ; but so far is this from being the case that the period of completion remains indefinite, and consequently the old establishment has to be retained, and the erection of the High School must come to a standstill pending the clearing away of thb present Asylum Buildings. We do not know with whom the blame rests; but assuredly some effort should be made to obtain possession of the site, so that the Work may be gone on with while the plant, etc., is on the ground. The front elevation begins already to Assume a very handsome appearance, and thfe whole ■ design of the interior Arrangements is exceedingly good. It Will be a great pity if the building should be left in a mutilated condition, and its occupation indefinitely postponed, owing to preventive delays at Seacliff,