THE WRONG LAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 6

THE WRONG LAND

, MINISTER’S INSPECTION. VISIT TO WANGANUI EAST. j Through an unavoidable and unforeseen circumstance, the Minister of ’Education (Hon. Peter Fraser), dui- • ing his official visit to Wanganui on ; i Monday, inspected the wrong piece of land, when asked by the Wanganui | Technical College Board of Managers ’to view some 14 acres at Wanganui 'East which it is proposed should be I vested in the school for experimental | purposes. The Ministerial parly drove behind ithe Easto wn railway station and gazed over portion of the old trotting course and was definitely aware of the bleak south winds. j “There are nothing like 14 acres ihere.” the Minister declared, when he ;had had the boundaries pointed out to him. I Somebody in the part;, said that the 'area took in a piece, ‘just over the | hill." i “Even that won't give you 14 acres,” ’the Minister protested. . Later. Technical College officials, who had been waiting patiently at the ,scene of the light area of land, became apprehensive and search parties were despatched lest the temporary head of the Government had become lost in the devious byways of Wanganui East. The Ministerial party was located finally on the site 0/ the proposed new Girls’ College, retraced its steps and saw the actual 14 acres , in question, lying between the new (showgrounds and the river. This area, it might be mentioned, ' belongs to the Railway Department, and the suggestion of the college board is that it be transferred to the college in exchange for some area of education property elsewhere in the Dominion.