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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 1. 28 February 1972

Curious Position

Curious Position

The position of houses that are earmarked for future use is a curious one. The government, through the Education department, buys the required houses, and holds them on behalf of the University. In the meantime, they are left to the Public Trust to administer. Houses in this state of limbo include about five in Fairlie Tce, three in Landcross St. some in Adams Tce, and about a dozen in Holloway Rd.; the latter projected for playing fields sometime in the future. One might expect that the University would recommend that students occupy these unused houses, but the position is not so simple. (In fact the situation looks like an undue complication for the sake of buck-passing) The Public Trust will let the properties to whoever is first in line, and almost by coincidence several are let to students. No 54 Adams Tce is let through the Accommodation Service. Most of the Holloway Rd. houses, which are in fairly poor condition, are let to elderly people, who have lived there previously. Over I all, the only houses not actually occupied, are several up a dirt track leading off Holloway Rd. that are virtually self demolishing. Even if these had been habitable, the Education Department's policy is to spend as little money as possible in renovation, and these would remain as unused as No. 57 Fairlie Tee did last year. This year. Dr. Culliford has stated that the house is quite definitely to be converted to make studies for the Institute of Geophysics.