DILWORTH SCHOOL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXI, 12 July 1930, Page 9

DILWORTH SCHOOL.

NEW BUILDING AT WIRI, ESTIMATED COST, £80,OOQ. COMPETITIVE DESIGNS CALLED. The Dilworth Trust Board proposes to build a school at Wiri at a cost of not more than £80,000, and it will call competitive designs from registered architects. Six premiums will be offered for the best award in the competition, which is to be held under the auspices of the New Zealand Institute of Architects. "

The board will have the advice of Professor C. R. Knight, of the Auckland University College, and associated with him on the jury of awards will be Mr. A. L. Moody, of the New Zealand Institute of Architects. Mr. Moody will represent the competitors. Other members of the jury of awards are Archdeacon G. Mac Murray, chairman of the Dilworth Trust Board, Professor A. P. W. Thomas, vice-chairman 3 and Archdeacon W. J. Simkin.

Accommodation will be provided in the first part of the building programme for 180 boys, and later the school will be enlarged to meet the needs of 360. The total cost will probably be about £120,000. At present there are 130 boys attending the Dilworth Ulster Institute at Remuera, and these will be transferred to Wiri when the new school is ready.

The site chosen for the school is on an area of 132 acres on the Great South Road, 14 miles from Auckland. This area was secured by the Dilworth Trust Board from several property owners last October, and has a general aspect towards the north and north-east. It is regarded as ideal for the location of a school, and has a large spread of level land, close to the building site, which could be converted iuto playing fields. There are extensive road frontages.

Boys who have decided on a farming career will be given elementary instruction in agriculture at Wiri, but it is not intended to conduct the school as an agricultural college. In the building scheme the board will follow the English plan of _having > a number of separate dormitories, with an assembly hall, a classroom block and a dining hall as central features. Two semi-artesian wells exist on the property, and tests have 'proved the purity of the water.