ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS.
Sir,—l am pleased to see that the architects are looking at the trouble they are experiencing from competition by builders in the right light, and will unite in-more determined efforts to gain oublic approval. So far we have suffered considerably in the past in Auckland, as witness Admiralty House, now happily removed, the Town Hall—l take them in order of dateand the Grammar School, none of which can be seriously taken as any srreat credit to us. Indeed, I wonder Mr. Anderson did not include them in the gruesome burden with the pictures of deceased citizens and their friends that we are doomed to bearAnyway it will bo well to postpone the erection of our university until we can be reasonably sure that no visitor will mistake it for a factory or an asylum. Orfe> Basis-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 4
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