VICTORIA COLLEGE
NEW ADMINISTRATION BLOCK WORKS COSTING £50,000 [BY telegraph—OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, Wednesday The construction of the new administration building at Victoria University College, Wellington, has now been completed, and the transfer of the college offices from the main building begun. It is expected that it will bo completed next week. The new building is of three storeys. The ground floor will,accommodate tho college office, tho first floor the principal's office and the council meeting room, and the top floor the custodian's quarters. Work on the building was begun in September, 1937. It is in reinforced concreto with a red brick exterior finishing in keeping with tho main building. Tho administration and council rooms have an interior finishing in Queensland maple. Work is progressing on the new college biology block, which will not be finished until next year. It was begun in February, following tho excavation of 14,000 yds. of soil, The now building will be connected with tho main building by a covered-in passage-way in concrete. The two buildings are being erected under a grant to the college council by the Government of approximately £50,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23215, 8 December 1938, Page 16
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