BUILDINGS AT UNIVERSITY

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25404, 29 January 1948, Page 6

BUILDINGS AT UNIVERSITY

CHANGES DURING THE HOLIDAYS

Preparation of foundations for the eight steel huts which will be erected at Canterbury University College to relieve the accommodation shortage began yesterday. There has been extensive building activity at the college during the holidays and it is hoped that most of the major works will be completed by the time students return in March.

The pegging of sites for the steel huts yesterday gave a clear picture of the changes which will be made within about a month. On a small lawn adjoining the registrar’s office, in Montreal street, one steel hut will be set up and provide two typing rooms, a duplicating room, and records store. Near the middle of the college block, behind the wooden temporary building facing Hereford street, another steel hut will serve as a drawing-room for the engineering department. Foundations for these were started yesterday. The building in a bay on the Worcester street frontage, approved by the City Council, “under duress,” will be made from four hospital-type huts, joined to form two junior physics laboratories, with cloak and, storerooms between. Immediately behind the temporary geography block erected last year will be a steel hut for the education department. with a lecture-room, store, and office. Behind this new unit will be ar engineering laboratory. Renovation of the college gymnasium. is nearing completion. This will be the centre lor the students’ health Scheme expected to start this term. After painting of the brick interior walls, new gymnasium fittings will be installed. Part of the adjoining swimming bath area has been taken m for a long store-room. On the western end of the gymnasium, the physical welfare officer’s office has been completed and also women’s shower, dressing and locker accommodation. On an upper floor at this end there are similar men’s rooms and an examination room. Some interior lining, painting, and fittings have still to be completed. A new boiler-house, attached to the engineering department, has been started. *

The basement of tjae physics department has been renovated to give more accommodation and the engineering library has also been altered to give extra space and better service. Except for the stone wall round the registrar’s office, the Worcester street boundary formerly had a fairly high iron-barred fence. This has been lowered to knee height with a single rail along the top.