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Otago Witness, Issue 2104, 21 June 1894, Page 27

m H B GAOL SITE. Every business man will agree thafc the resolve of the City Council to accept the Government's £3000 and re-erect the gaol on its present site is a wise choice of the alternatives offered them. "£3OOO and Castle street or elsewhere and nothing ! " thunders the Government, and the council reply, " Pass along the dibbs, Richard !" What else could they do? This is a present and future gain to the working man. The £3000 goes into present consumption at a very opportune time, and in three or four years a more intelligent Government will come in, and will give tho council £10,000 to shift its gaol to a more becoming site. The working man scores again, and so he should. He is the consistent supporter of the Waterbury Watch, and the backbone of his couLtry.

Sir Maurice O'Rorke has informed the promoters of the Working Men'B College of Technical Classes at Auckland that he has communicatKd with the Minister for Education, who is of opinion that the Education Board cannob establish a "continuation school" in the city. Mr Aflhby Hunter, C.E , of the firm of Messrs Stewart and Hunter, Auckland, engineers for the construction of the Rotorua rail way, has been appointed resident engineer to the Westport Coal Company. Mr Hunter leaves for Wellington on Monday, where he has to meet Mr J. F. Maxwell, consulting engineer to the company. Several areas of choice land in the Temuka district are to be submitted to the Government for purchase, with the view of their being cut up into five-acre allotments for settlement without residence, by settlers in Arowhenua who have already acquired holdings under the old »ct.-Tim»ru Herald,