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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1931, Page 13

The annual meeting of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects was held last night. The .retiring chairman, Mr. A. S. Mitchell, presided over an attendance of about 20 members. The annual report stated that the membership of the branch consisted of 28 Fellows, .45 Associates, and 7 honorary life members. Tho election of officers resulted as follows:—Chairman, Mr. F. E. Greenish; vice-chairman, Mr. J. M. Dawson; district secretary and treasurer, Mr. E. W. G. Coleridge; committee, Messrs.,o. H. Mitchell, P. H. Graham, W. Gray Young, V. P. Haughton, H. de J. Clere, J. I. King, A. B. Hamilton; trustees for the -students' prize fund, Mr. Greenish and Mr. Coleridge; auditor, Mr. D. G. Johnston. The results of the small house competition for architectural draughtsmen and students were as follows: —Miss M. A. M'lntyre (Wellington), 1; Mr. F G F. Sheppard (Auckland University College), 2; Mr. H. B. Fleck (Wellinston), 3; and Mr. A..S. W. Maclcay (Auckland), equal, 3. The following were commended: Messrs. Vernon A. Brown (Auckland), E. F. Bellman. (Wellington), B. K. Wright (Hastings), F G. F. Sheppard (Auckland University College), H. Spenee-Sales (Wellington), I-. B. Harris, junr. (Auckland), K. JN Tapiei- (Auckland), Graham Dawson (Wellington). Exhibitions of the designs will be held in the four mnin centres of tho Dominion. The judges, Messrs. C. Reginald Ford, F.TM.B.A., and W. ll.' Glimmer, F.8.1.8.A., reported that the competition produced thirty-three designs. While in some respects the result was disappointing, on tho whole the competitors_ might bo complimented upon their designs, which in tho judges' opinion, wero hopeful for the future of domestic iirchitectu're of New Zealand. TRAGIC DEATHS .± TWO RUNANGA CHILDREN (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GBEYMOUTH, 19th November. A double drowning occurred this evening at Kunanga. Two children, cousins, Allan Duggau, three years and seven months, and Georgo Kendrick, four years and seven months, left home at 5 p.m. Their bodies were found three hours later in a shallow creek running through the township. By some unknown means they had got into a hole four feet deep, and evidently had been dead for over two hours when the bodies were found. Their parents reside at Eunanga.