"A UNIQUE REQUEST."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13450, 29 May 1907, Page 7

"A UNIQUE REQUEST."

TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN

WELLINGTON.

[BY telegraph.—press ASSOCIATION.]

''- Wellington, Tuesday. 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 for Education to-day to ask that the , Government 1 should :. give a site for technical education purposes at, either ! the ; Mount Cook - or Mount View parts of the city, where there are wide areas of ground on which the gaol,and Mental Hospital are built. It was pointed out that 900 students attended the' City Technical School, and the present accommodation was utterly inadequate. ' •'■_:.-"

. The Minister said •it was almost unique to ask the Government- for a site for a technical school. The Government had insisted in every case, that the localities 1 should provide the site> and he did riot think there was the least likelihood of any exception being )'■ made to" that rule in; the case of : Wellington. ";* They must depend; upon themselves to provide the s|te, and only look to the Government for Mstitice in providing buildings and equipment. ■"; That applied generally, not particularly; to the question of the Mount Cook site. In regard to that site* the Government felt that on every occasion that 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 the' Mount Cook site for the further development and extension of needed Government buildings. \