MONUMENTAL DESIGN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21962, 20 November 1934, Page 10

MONUMENTAL DESIGN

ARCHITECTURAL STUDENTS GIFT FOR COMPETITION * The gift by an anonymous donor of a prize of £5 for competition next year anloug students of the Auckland School of Architecture at Auckland University College was announced at a meeting of the college council yesterday. The donor said he had been struck by the high standard revealed at the recent exhibition of students' work. "It is stimulating," he wrote, "to observe the responsiveness and ability of New Zealand youth to assimilate and to Attain to so high a plane in the art and philosophy expressed in architecture, and in a country, too, which has so few precedents for visual example." The conditions attached to his offer of a prize were that the competition should be one for a monumental design presumed to be erected in Auckland, on a stated site, to perpetuate tho memory of a worthy statesman. The presumed cost of the monument would be not less than £IO,OOO. The donation of the prize would have to remain strictly anonymous. "The donor may wish to remain anonymous," said Mr. H. Horton, "but I think we ought to disclose the name of the statesman."

The council decided to accept the offer of tho prize and to give instructions for the competition to be conducted next year. Thanks were expressed to the donor.