AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 279, 24 November 1937, Page 8

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY

MORE LAND REQUIRED [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Nov. 23. Reasons lor the desire of Auckland University College to acquire the Government grounds contiguous to the college as an extension of the college property were given to-day by the president, Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, who said that the reasons he gave were closely bound up with the decision of the College Council to retain the present position rather than shift the college elsewhere, and had therefore influenced the council in its determination to build a new £40,000 biology block on the present site, within the present college grounds. The president said that contiguous to the present site to the north were city leasehold properties, the fee simple of which the council proposed to ask the City Council to transfer as a jubilee gift. This, with the Government House grounds, would provide an area of 14 acres, which .would meet the future needs ot the college. Mr. Mahon stressed the need of playing fields as essential to full student life. That was impossible without the Government House grounds. Moreover, when the biology block was finalised there would be on the site buildings costing at least £350,000 to replace.