No Prospect

So a check of the houses owned by the Crown on behalf of the University reveals no prospects for extra bedspace. As the University population grows nearer to that absurd figure of 10,000 the problem of making student accommodation compatible with staff studies will magnify. Perhaps we should all hope for yet more concrete and glass monstrosities like the Earth Science and Easterfield buildings to tie the hungry staff to the immediate University sits.

One can't help cursing the short-sighted founders of Victoria who allowed themselves to be bribed by the Cable Car developers into settling on the tiny windswept Kelburn site.

It seems that every year is a crisis for accommodation at Victoria. But the saddening thing is that people become content with their overprice, unsatisfactory room and are too apathetic to care about the future. Each year is just one worse than the last. If it is human dramatisation you want, then go down to the Evening Post building as the first edition comes on sale. Or go the rounds of the land agents yourself and be met by vacant stares and pitying looks.

photo : Alan Brown