SHOW BUILDING SITE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 8

SHOW BUILDING SITE

board and association CONFER A COMPLETE AGREEMENT SCHOOL TO USE GROUND A conference was held yesterday morning on the subject of the John Street site for the Winter Show building, between Mr. T. Forsyth, chairman, Mr. G. L, Stewart, secretary, and Mr. G. Powell, architect, representing the Education Board, and Mr. R- H. Nimmo, chairman, and Mr. G. Mitchell, manager, representing the Winter Show Association, when the association’s proposals, as affecting the proposed new school, were reviewed. After full and friendly discussion a complete understanding was arrived at.

The points for consideration were:— (1) The playing area; (2) the dumping ground for the spoil from the building site; (3) the question of obscuring the sun from the school building. Subject to confirmation by the City Council, the Education Board, and the Show Association, the association's representatives offered to make the playing area available as a school playing ground, to give facilities for the disposal of spoil from the board’s section, and to make any adjustment necessary and possible with regard to the third point. , . , , Subject to agreement being reached in regard to No. 3, it is understood that the Education Board’s representatives will place no obstacle in the way of the Winter Show Association’s proposals. The chairman of the association, Mr. R. H. Nimmo, states: “The matter brought up by Mr. Forsyth was a very Important one, and the association is grateful that it has been ventilated early, so that any necessary adjustment can be made." The association also desires to express its appreciation of the cpirit of goodwill and helpfulness in which the matters were discussed on the ground.

The playing area now proposed to be set aside will be bigger, safer, and superior in every way to that originally proposed by the Education Board, which was on a high bank near the road. The new ground will be approximately 120 yards long, and connected direct to the school site. It will be levelled and laid out, by the association. The school will therefore have the use .of a better ground, free of cost, than is possessed by any other school in the citv other than Wellington College. This area, subject to confirmation by the bodies concerned, was offered to the Education Board for a children’s playing ground, under conditions ,to be mutually agreed to. The association’s representatives also agreed to give what other facilities they could for the disposal of the spoil from the school site. In regard to the third point—the obscuring of the sun —the Show Association agreed to place the show building 50 feet awav from the boundary, and as it is only one story, it ie not considered that the sun will in any way he kept off the school. The representatives who met on the ground are convinced that the Show Association’s activities at John Street, will be a decided advantage to the school, by giving playing facilities not otherwise possible if it had had to rely on Government expenditure; in fact, it will be a great benefit to everyone. The chairman and members of the Show Association—the,, members of the Manufacturers’ Association can also be included—wish to thank Mr. Forsyth, chairman of the Education Board, for the good-will shown, and for the opportunity of again demonstrating that both bodies are actuated by the sole desire to advance the public good.