TRAINING COLLEGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25052, 16 November 1944, Page 6

TRAINING COLLEGE

FLANS FOR HOSTELS TEMPORARY ARRANGEMENTS A proposal to use accommodation at the site of the Avondale intermediate school as a temporary hostel for women students of the Auckland Teachers' Training College was endorsed by the Auckland Education Board at a meeting yesterday. The hostel will accommodate about 40 students in addition to a matron and staff and it is hoped to have it available for the opening of the next college year on February 6. ■ A recommendation that a property of about two acres adjoining the college swimming baths should be secured as a site for a permanent women's hostel was made by the principal, Mr D. M. Rae, in a letter to the board, after proposing the use of the Avondale premises as a temporary hostel. He considered that plans for the permanent building should be prepared and that it could be built as one of the post-war rehabilitation tasks. Mr Eae also recommended that the board's plan to obtain a vacated American military building as a temporary hostel to be erected near the baths at the college for 50 men students should be proceeded with as speedily as possible. Mr A. Burns said that the Minister of Education, Mr Mason, had received the board's proposals favourably and had suggested that -the permanent women's hostel should be two-storeyed and built in concrete. With the existing hostel and the proposed two temporary hostels, about 90 women 'and about 50 men could be accommodated. The board endorsed the proposals and referred them to the Education Department for its approval. ADMISSION OF STUDENTS NO EASING OF STANDARD A recommendation that students who had only a partial pass in either the school certificate or university entrance examination should be permitted to enter teachers' training colleges provided they possessed outstanding personality and other general attributes, which was recently made by the' Auckland Education Board, was the subject of a reply from the Education Department received at a meeting of the board 'yesterday. The department considered it would not be wise to depart from the present minimum qualification, which was regarded in some quarters as already too low. While personality was a most important factor it could be said that a student who was unable to pass the school certificate examination would be unable to cope with ordinary training college studies. Advice of an increase of £lO per annum in the lodging allowance of training college students as from September 1, 1944, was also received from the department. The increase raises the allowance to £4O a year.

LIFE IN AMERICA RELATION TO THE WORLD A number of subjects affecting American life and the United States in relation to world affairs were discussed by Mr S. Greenbie, chief of the United States Office of War Information in New Zealand and special assista/i J ; to tho American Minister for New Zealand, when he addressed a meeting last night under the auspices of the central committee of the patriotic societies of Auckland and the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. Mr Greenbie said there was a general feeling in the world that America was a "have" country, ■ while Germany and Japan were "have nots," and that America was just "hogging it." America was a "have'' country, but only because the people had the freedom to develop and make full use of what they had. America, like the rest of the world, did not realise that it was a round world and that whatever the people did for good or evil would come back to them. ''We are all responsible to each other and we must begin to think in terms of the world," said Mr Greenbie. Dealing with information received about America, Mr Greenbie said that if Colonel McCormick, owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, said anything, New Zealanders got it. amplified it and made an issue of it. Nobody in America outside Colonel McCormick's own area took any notice of him. DEATH IN HOTEL (0.C.) TATJPO, "Wednesday An inquest was held,today at Taupo by the coroner, Mr R. F. Hutchins, into the death of Albert Henry Burt, aged 51, a married man with two children, whose bodv was found in one of the bathrooms at the Lake Hotel last evening. The coroner's verdict was that deceased died by cuts in the throat selfinflicted. The evidence disclosed that deceased, who was a returned soldier from the last war, had resided at the hotel for the' past ten days negotiating for the purchase of the business. He was suffering from ill-health, having been gassed in the last war