DILWORTH PROGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 126, 30 May 1931, Page 10

DILWORTH PROGRESS.

REVENUE OF TRUST FOR YEAR

SLIGHT DECREASE SHOWN

NEW BUILDING SCHEMJ

With assets totalling £434.715 and a revenue for the past year of £27,240, the Dilworth Trust Board is in the happy position of being able to Carry on its excellent work. The cost of the" school for the year was £10,00.3, and after mak- - inc sundry other payments the trustees have been'able to transfer £10,040 to the reserve fund. The property held by the Board is valued at £341,582, while there is a sum of £99,493 in investments. The net revenue is slightly less than last * The annual report states that 21 newboys were admitted to the Dilworth school during the year. It was regretted that many applications for admission could- not 'be accepted. The school had been lull almost all the year, and the secondary department had been increased to 42 and included for the first time a fifth form. In athletics the school team was top of its grade for cricket last year, and this year, for the second time, the school succeeded in wining the interschools relay swimming cup. In connection with the board's building scheme on a site at Wiri, 51 designs for a new school were sent in by competitors. The first premium had been awarded to Mr. H. E. White, F.N.Z.1.A., the second to Messrs Tolc and Massey, and the third to Messrs. Hutchison and Lippincott. Three additional premiums were awarded to Mr. 11. Lippincott, Messrs. Bloomiield, Owen Morgan and R. W. MacLaurin, and Messrs. E. G. Le Petit and E. McGowan. The winning design was for a brick building which, it was considered, would undoubtedly have been a handsome structure as viewed from the Great South Road, but the Hawke's Bay earthquake raised doubts about the advisability of erecting a brick building in New Zealand for school purposes. The board recognised that the probability of an earthquake in Auckland was very small, but in a matter of this kind it was felt that every precaution should be taken for the safety of the boys. Mr. White, the architect, had carried out investigations in Hawke's Bay and. on his recommendation, the board bad adopted a revised scheme for a ferro-concrete building, with an outside finish applied as conipo, enhanced by special sands to give an excellent ell'ect. - \ An early beginning will be made on the formation of an entrance drive from the Great South Road to the site of the new school. A sale of the major portion of the land and buildings owned by the Board at Papatoetoo has been completed on satisfactory terms. There still remains a farm of 35 acres and an orchard of ].'>'. acres, which the board hopes to realise when conditions permit. The Dilworth building is still fairly let to tenants and provides the major portion of the rent revenue of the estate, adds the report. There has been no movement in the letting of sections at Rcniuera. which are heavily rated, but the board looks forward to an improvement in economic conditions in the future,