WELLINGTON TECHNICAL SCHOOL

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 278, 29 May 1907, Page 2

WELLINGTON TECHNICAL SCHOOL

tPJSB I'KESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, May 28. ' A deputation from the Technical Education Board, Chamber of Commerce, Industrial Association, and Trades and Labour Council, and including members of Parliament, waited on the Minister of Education I to-day to ask that Government should : give a site for technicaj education purposes at either Mount Cook or Mount View, being parts of the city where there are wide areas of ground on which a gaol and mental hospital were built by the Government. It was pointed out to the Minister that nine hundred students attend the City Technical School, and the present accommodation is utterly inadequate. The Minister said it was almost unique to ask Government for a site for a technical school. Government had insisted in every case that the localities, should provide the site, and he did not think there was the least likelihood of any exception being made to that rule. In the. case or Wellington, they must depend upon themselves to provide the site, and only look to the Government for assistance in providing . the buildings and equipments. That applied gen* ©rally, and not particularly to the question of Mount Cook site. In regard to that site, the position was this.: The Government felt that on every occasion when land was required for any public purpose in the city of Wellington, they had to pay an exorbitant price, and therefore they proposed to keep Mount Cook site for further development and extension of needed Government buildings.