HOUSING PARLIAMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 79, 3 April 1911, Page 8

HOUSING PARLIAMENT.

COMPETITIOK COKDITIOXI, I

CNSATISFACTORr TO ARCHTXIcii I • 1

(Br Teietrapn.— Presa AModaiidt> CHRISTCHURCH. Sunda ? A deputation of Cbristchureh a»Lt. tecte waited on the Hon. R. (Minister for. Public Works) relative to ihe designs And conditwffiS the new Parliament Buildings ' Jpsfll Hurst Seager said that the supported the united action of tfc »22 of the. New Zealand Institute"o£2Hbs| tects, and represented the much a* it could be single town. The institute had aioSSl the latest competition conditionj o?SMI Institute of British Architects, that these would form the basisVtfrtU conditions for the competitive de»4i«C the Parliament Buildings, as all mmtvl?. : of the British Institute were in heS bound not to compete unless thmis2£fr-\ tione were complied with. The said that he could inform the dnbSti? at once that the Government dwifi£| tend to consult the British ObrtjfcJ They were not concerned about it slightest degree. If the Government ky intended that British architecte ifeS compete they- would have Great Britain and Australia, reserved the competition entirely.foj"jS? :; Zealand. The Government intoded fc bring in a man from outside to. -mtta the award. He had given a site, the amount of money to beexpeidjpl and a certain number of rooms, ta4((g|| petitors would have to design thetnliS as the money allowed them. - ■vqmst Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.P.. remarkedflS the conditions must be dreadfully. Taiffil to leave that to architects. ■ •"I^ Mr. Seager asked that the -deeUip should be accompanied by ratate&msf the competitor that the design own, and that the plans had. be*B*'w|K pared in his own omcc by his 0wfl : Otherwise the desire to restrict: petition to New Zealand architecti be frustrated. He also considered fair that Civil servants should bVaDiwilll to be competitors, as they knew the'eiM of *the Government fuller than other «p| petitors. " >'!- ? '' • The Government pointed out that tiS|\| were Government architects in' VifrljiiP and Wellington. There was Campbell (Government Architect) teM that the Minister was anyone. . ". .■'■■}^^S Mr."Seager said he had• inspetteflJle site, and did not consider that' most desirable, as the have io be erected over a gully, this account the expense would;bß^^p oue. , . •'''''fMlssSi A.long discussion ensued, thelftipgf stating that no other site. than ■elected would be considered. Therl||*| no chance of an alternative scheiMJtMp accepted; he had no objection $gf?igira| scheme being forwarded. As <pj|Mg quest for an extension of time, be 'tms "he would place the deputation's repram tations before Cabinet, and x&jMffl week. • ;4«