HOUSING DESIGNS
NEW ZEALANDER'S SUCCESS COMPETITION IN VICTORIA First prize of £125 in the Victorian Housing Commission's competition for designs of dwellings for its £3,000,000 slum clearance and rehousing project has been awarded to a New Zealander, Mr Elwyn C. Jackson, formerly of Christchurch. The first section of the project will involve the establishment r>t a garden suburb of 400 houses at Fishermen's Bend, near Melbourne. The competition was open to architects, town planners, engineers, and surveyors throughout Australia and was divided into two sections. The first was for the planning and site layout of 55 acres at Fishermen's Bend, for which there were 51 entries: and the second was for the design of three types of houses containing one. two and three bedrooms at a cost of £375. £475. and £550 respectively, in materials other than timber, for which 52 sets of drawings were submitted Mr Jackson is assistant architect and structural engineer in the Commonwealth Department of the Interior. Melbourne. He began his architectural career under Mr G. •A. J. Hart in Christchurch. where he worked for four years before leaving New Zealand in 1931.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 3
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