VICTORIA COLLEGE SITE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4489, 17 October 1901, Page 6

VICTORIA COLLEGE SITE.

fi AT. ROAD A-CREED UPON. The* Victoria Oollegsl'Council at its meeting last night received and unani. mously adopted the following report of its Site Committee:— , ~ . “The committee have to report that they have obtained from the Wellington City Council the. offer of two alternative sites on certain condition*. One site - is a piece of land on Salamanca road con. taining five acres 3 roods 17 perches, the conditions attached to. which are: Uj That land of equal value within the city be vested in the. Corporation as a pula lie reserve. (2) Thai the « c k«M?,J>e carried into legal effect and the College Buildings commenced yeaiiju The ether sits is part of ffelhurue Park Reserve, two and a half acres at the northern end, the condition being: That the Council of the Victoria. College re. claim and form additional land so that the total level land available for public recre. ation purposes will be six •ere*committee obtained the offer of the hret site, in response ’td an application which they made to the City Council and after, wards out of deference to the mshee of the Professorial Heard forwarded a me mortal by that Board to. the City Council and the response to that was thw offer of the second oite. In order to be able to obtain for the city land in exchahge for the Salamanca road site the commiU tee approached the Wellington College Governors and they ip response to the appeal passed a resolution te the recommendation of th© Victoria Col, lege Sit© Committee that a portipm ox thi College Reserve not exceeding ten acres should he handed over to the City as such exchange. There is a small piece of land adjoining the galamanca read site belong, ing to the Hospital Trustees, which they have at present declined to part with, but which the committee think should be acquired, as it makes the site com. plete; the whole acreage would then he upwards of six ‘ and a half acres. The committee have carefully inspected the two sites and have considered their rfe soective merits, and' the conditions at. tached to them, and unanimously recoin, mend that the Council should accept that on Salamanca road.” The' report was brought down hr Mr , J. K. Blair, and was carried without dis. enssion. i The committee was directed to continue in existence, and proceed to carry out its own recommendations.