PROGRESS AT WAITOA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 995, 11 June 1930, Page 6

PROGRESS AT WAITOA

MODERN HOMES ERECTED USE OF BLOCK SYSTEM A further index to the progress of Waitoa, a great farming and dairying centre, is a number of brick houses in mission style, designed by Mr. C. W. K. Reynolds for erection by the National Trading Company of New Zealand, Ltd. These brick homes are on the double block system providing six houses, in three blocks, artistically designed and finished in piaster In the mission style. They are pointed cream with green shutters and flower-boxes and red-tiled roofs. The plans are almost identical, h.ut the centre block has a different front elevation from the side blocks, thus breaking up the repetition.

The plans have been as well thought out as the elevations, each double block containing four roms in addition to a sleeping porch, panelled, hall, bathroom and laundry, all being under one roof. The interior arrangements are of the latest with bevelled plateglass swing doors, book and china cabinets, w'ardrobes, linen press, safe, and ample cupboards and bins, with tradesmen’s cupboards, all built in.

The living room is large and has a led brick open fireplace to ensure warmth in the winter nights, here is a beam ceiling. The kitchen, bathroom and laundries are modern, having tiled range and sink, porcelain bath and basin, with hot and cold water and electric light. Waitoa, having to depend on its rain and bore water with septic tank ararrangements, as in many other country districts, this part of the contract has been no easy task. The rainwater from the three blocks is carried underground to the back of the section, where there is a 30,000-gallon concrete reservoir built under-ground with supply tanks 30ft above to ensure good pressure. The water, with a separate system from a bore 125 ft, is pumped up automatically as required by electric pumps. The contract price was in the vicinity of £6,000, and the contractor was T. H. Clements, of Otahuhu. The architect, Mr. C. W. K. Reynolds. A.1.A.A., of Auckland, since his trip abroad a few years ago for architectural study, has received confirmation from Kngland of having been admitted as an Associate of the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, I-ondon, there beiug only two other members in the whole of New Zealand of this particular institute, which is of a high standing and large membership through the British Isles.

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