Hong Kong Builder
THE NORTHCOTE TRAINING COLLEGE
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General view of the recently completed building on Bonham Road,
We have been privileged during the past few years to illustrate in these pages many hundreds of buildings of every description that have been erected in this Colony, but none has given us greater pleasure to include in our pages than the new Teachers' Training College on Bonham Road, which was completed and formally upened a few weeks ago.
Hong Kong is rapidly becoming the training centre of the Far East for the dissemination of Knowledge of both Western and Chinese cultures. Since the com- mencement of hostilities in China hundreds of elemen-
tary and a number of secondary schools have been founded here and with the erection of this splendid building, facilities for the proper training of teachers to staff these schools and schools throughout China will be provided. It is no exaggeration to say that this College will wield a tremendous influence in the lives of hundreds of thousands of Chinese students. Such facilities provided in this British Colony will be deeply appreciated in Chinese scholastic circles and must in- evitably influence the cultural and political relationship between the two nationalities.
The Art and Music Room on the second floor.
The new building contains everything that thought and foresight could suggest as be- ing necessary for the training of a teacher and is, moreover, centrally placed with regard to schools for practical work,
The design and construction of the College has been carried out by the Architectural Offic of the Public Works Depart- ment, under the direction of Mr. W. A. Cornell, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I.. in collaboration with the Principal. Mr. T. R. Rowell, B.Sc., Dip.Ed.
The main outline of the building is based upon the tra- ditional E-shaped plan, which has been evolved over a num- ber of years, and generally
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