’VARSITY EXTENDS TO OLD HIGH SCHOOL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17745, 15 January 1926, Page 6

’VARSITY EXTENDS TO OLD HIGH SCHOOL.

ONLY ONE NEW ROOM TO BE BUILT. Arrangements are being made for use of the old Bovs’ High School buildings in Worcester Street. It was hoped that the alterations would be completed by the beginning of the college 1 term on March 1. That is felt to be impossible, as a great deal of stone-work has to be done in the alterations. The School of Engineering will use the west end of the ground floor and of the first floor. The economic department will have three rooms on the ground floor, the forestry school one room on the i ground floor and two rooms on the first floor, the professor of geology three rooms, and the professor of education two rooms for his usual work and another for experimental psychology. The old central hall on the first floor will be used as a lecture room, and will have a stepped floor. Only one new room, at the east end, will be added. Gold Find Rumoured. It is rumoured that a good gold reef has been discovered near Seddonville. Dominion Yacht Cruise. The Auckland-built and owned motor launch Ruamano, which left Auckland on Christmas Day on a cruise round New Zealand, arrived at Greymouth on Wednesday. The launch left yesterday morning for the Sounds, where a fortnight is to be spent, after which Stewart Island and Bluff will be visited, and the journey up the east coast to Auckland continued. The party is due back at Auckland at the end of February. Ashburton Glass Works. The plans for the works to be erected at Ashburton for the Southern Cross Glassworks Company, on the main railway line just beyond the saleyards. to the north of thg town, are expected to be ready in a fortnight, when tenders for the erection of the buildings will be called. At present it is intended to go on with one section of the works only, machinery for the manufacture of hol-low-ware being installed: Bottles, jars, lamp shades and similar articles will be made. Before long, however, further plant will be put in for the manufacture of plate and window glass, electric bulbs and coloured work. Different types of plant are. of course, necessary for this work, and the plans provide for future extensions to house all the machinery that will be needed. Mr Tate states that further tests carried out with Mount Somers silica sand show conclusively that it is as good as an}' in the world. ITe is convinced that, owing to the quality of the sand and the low cost of production, the Ashburton glas* works, when established, will readily forge ahead to become one of the leading secondary industries of the Dominion. « Shag Rock Corner. At last night’s meeting of the Canter bury Automobile Association, the action of the Finance Committee in granting £SO to the Sumner Borough Council to aid in widening the corner at Shag Rock was approved. A vote of appreciation to the president (Mr W. H. Nicholson) for purchasing the land to widen the corner was carried. Automobile Association Membership. Ninetv-one new members were eelcted to the Canterbury Automobile Association at its meeting last night, making a total of 712 for the year. The association’s total membership i 3 now 4993.