PROPOSAL FURTHER DISCUSSED

Evening Star, Issue 20942, 5 November 1931, Page 8

PROPOSAL FURTHER DISCUSSED

POSSIBLE SAVINGS “ I have heard that two members of the Training College staff have been transferred to Christchurch and Auckland, and it looks as if the Dunedin Training College is going to be closed,”' said a reliable authority to a * Star reporter this morning. It is also rumoured that the Wellington College is to be closed and the students taken by Christchurch and Auckland, which possess the best equipped buildings. Auckland could accommodate students from Taranaki, Wanganui, and Hawke’s Bay districts, but probably could not take all the Wellington ones. At Christchurch the Education Department has both the new and old training colleges at its disposal, and they could take in all the Otago and Southland students, as well as the remainder from the Wellington district. If the training college were closed ir. Dunedin the economies that could be effected would be a reduction in the inspectorship of from five to four inspectors, a relief from the salaries of tho principal and vice-principal of the local training college, while the building might probably be used for the Albany Street School children. _ The latter move would dispense with a headmaster, and altogether the salaries of four highly paid officers would be saved.: ‘ It ,is further suggested that the department might close the Albany Street School and save, over £30,000, the sum set aside for the new school. In Wellington the department would bo relieved of the salaries of the principal and vice-principal, and enabled to use the old training college building for Government offices for which a large amount is being paid in rents in various parts of the city.