ARCHITECTS CONFER

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 11 February 1926, Page 7

ARCHITECTS CONFER

♦ . . . THE PBESZDENTIAL ADIXRJ3S& — ' "> (fir Tdttftaph.—Preai \aanwrtMß ) PUNEDIK, Thia Day. > In hk pnaidestial addnav at the asv nual eoßferwaea of the New Zealand Institute of Anhtteete, Mr. W. K. Pag* (Wellingtan), preaident, spoke on the relation of architecture to trne eitiaenship, and atrmigly emphaaiiad tte urgent need for town plaaning aad for interesting the general public in architecture, AH classes should be urged to take a keen interest in what had been called the spiritual expression of natural things, the creation and maintenance of suitable fittings and beautiful Burwmiidings to life. Congratulating the institution on the establishment of a Chair of Agriculture at Auckland University, the president stressed the valne and importance of the sehobi system of. teaching agrieoltare, which he personally regarded as better than the old system of apprenticeship. Appealing for sympathy, sapport, and fair trial for the architectural coarse at the University, he declared it comprises our whole duty and mission not only to students, bht to the citisßoa orf the eotiniij gaaterally, to enable them to build better eiiien and proper enTiromnent to combat feverto * Mftl vriL ' •