STUDENT HOSTEL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25941, 6 September 1945, Page 6

STUDENT HOSTEL

ADDITIONS TO HERIOT ROW PROPERTY PROVISION FOR 90 RESIDENTS Plans and specifications for additions to the students’ hostel on the property in Heriot row formerly owned by Mr E. I. Halsted are nearing completion. Twenty-two women students of the Otago University and the Dunedin Training College have been in residence there this year, and the new block will, provide accommodation for an additional 40. The secretary of the Otago Education Board (Mr G. W. Carrington) informed a Daily Times reporter yesterday that the main Halsted house would be used as an administrative block in which there would be a large dining room for the women students as well as [or male students housed in Wardell’s former property alongside. Mr Carrington said that when possession was obtained of another property adjacent to Warden’s there would be residential accommodation for 45 male students from the University and the Training College, all of whom would make use of the dining room in the administrative block. Seven women students would be retained in the old Halsted house, so that the total number of women for whom accommodation would be. provided would be 47.

It is estimated that the provision of accommodation on this site for a total of over 90 students will involve an expenditure of £30,000, including the cost of furnishings, equipment, and additions, as well as the original purchase price. This expenditure is being met out of loan money which the Otago Education Board is authorised by recent legislation to borrow from government sources.

The Education Board has placed the management of this hostel in the hands of the Stuart House Council, which is contemplating the appointment next year of a married man as warden.