COMPETITION AMONG ARCHITECTS

Southland Times, Issue 23794, 17 April 1939, Page 6

COMPETITION AMONG ARCHITECTS

DESIGN FOR NEW HOSPITAL AT CASHMERE (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, April 16. A competition held to decide which architects should prepare plans for the new subsidiary hospital at Cashmere was decided yesterday, the jury announcing that the winning design had been submitted by Messrs Gummer and Ford, of Auckland. The second choice was the design by Messrs Massey, Morgan and Bateson, of Auckland, and the Christchurch firm, Messrs Helmore Cotterill and Harman was third. For over two weeks the jury (Sir Hugh Acland, Mr P. Rule, architect, of Timaru, and Mr L. B. Evans, chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board) has given the designs careful consideration. • In a brief statement, Mr Evans said that the winning design would not necessarily be adopted as it stood. The competitors had agreed to make any alterations desired by the board. Mr Evans said that the jury’s report would be submitted to a meeting of the board on Wednesday week. Full details would then be available. The undertaking for which Messrs Gumme- and Ford are now architects ig a subsidiary hospital to be built on 17 acres of land recently acquired by the board at the foot of the Cashmere hills. The new hospital is to relieve pressure on the present public hospital. A start with the erection of the new building will be made as soon, as possible. When the board decided on the establishment of a subsidiary block the figure of £200,000 was mentioned and this is nearly an indication ol what the contract price might be.