New Technical School.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13644, 11 July 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

New Technical School.

■K> v A BIG ENTERPRISE. ' ■■■<) (" New Zealand Herald.") - i. From an ardiitectural standpoint, Weli lWey-street promises to be, in the near ' future, one. of .Auckland's finest tUoroughfarcs. 'the southern side of the.streofc, Opposite the Public Library, is being rapidly transformed, and in place of Tinassunijug timber-built residences -there >yill. _ iy .bfc Wo or three fine .structures of. considerable archiiechlral ;nicrit, the.-HMWb wo- • rainent being the nfew : . Technical ..behoof . and the .Teachers' Training College. The new Training College is. rapidly , hearing completion, and the workmen, is is cxpegted, \vill have finished their laboiird m about six or eeyeu Aveeks.i<ir gard to "the -Technical School, the plans have now been drawn, up, and tendeiis for ' the construction of the foundations of .the puilding will' be- asked for in about:, a ttionih. Mr. • John Mitchell, is responsi- • Ijle for the plan of the school, on which " a sum of £30,000 is to be spent, and bo is consulting with the Education Board's architect, Mr. 1 tfarrell, on tho maAtfer. „ It is believed that the school wbeii coin- ' pleted; - f ,will be 'the largest buildtog , i« •»*. ; 280 ft,. and frill totjd"ll6ffc at its deepest ' / part. Built of concrete reinforced with ••• Steel, it will; be 75ft high', an«t consist Of four storeys: The dispofeibion. of ; tlia r various • departments of the school has just . . • been decided oil, bilt it is possible that some curtailment in the plans 1 miy 'be ■ necessary, lis the sum of £24,000, wlilth V is available for the building proper, may - be jnsuficienf to cal-ry out the scheme in ■ ' its entirety. .... j • How comprehensive , the school is to bo may be judged from thei'variety of subjects for which .'teaching', accommodation is provided. In the basement there ii>. to be a. foundry, in which various foittiis of the metal workers' art will be taught, -there will also be a plumbers' workshop and museum, and a machine shop, in the :, ' .basement, whilethorp will be installed ail electrical installation, by which the school ~ may produce its own power for lighting ; and other purposes. On the ground flifor /there will.be two large lecture' rooms.ono f(ir electrical and the other for mechaiiicni engineering' students, as well as . a mftiht lecture hall for whole school. On" the•ground level will also be'.found pattern j making rooms and laboratories in. .connect- ■ ion with the engineoringing studies. . On the first floor will bo .a painters' frork- • shop, a- carpenters' workshop, and 9. cab-inet-making shop, .4 wOTd-wdrklfcg m^ ery shop, an'd a .mecHanidal drawing office,, On the second floor the needs of-.the femalo . • -pupils will be catereii. for. ' There .will b® cookery departmeritr a millinery room v ~a . laundry, a housewifery, classroom, tfrb cpn- > tination-egliool cliiestpoihs, .& typewriting •and' book-keeping "room, a> Bread-baking- , ■ room, and a boot and',shoe making. I*oolll y. The school library will be housed on the] ■ third floor, where* there ,>will also be- the . . elementary advanced physics laboratories, elementary and advanced chemistry laboratories, - and mathematics \ classroom,typographical - room, the navigation depaj t-, . . ment, and the' plastering &nd bricklaying*., "rbom. The roof of tlie building is A to be ■ flat, and will be arranged to provide a. , terireation grount , for pupils. .' Common, ; rooms and largo diningroom, are also .sin-. eluded in the -.plans'. ■■■• Two - electric - lifts, ;one'for goods :arid one fof pasengejrs, will, be installed. . • x,:n ■ • training : college; nOw- nearing • completion, 1 is built on equally up-to-date'-lines*, • Shower 1 and ordinary - baths are provided fot the" pupils, v where ■ they will: be abld. ■ to refresh themselves after 'a game oftennis oil the 'lawns 1 at' the back' of t-hfe - builditig. There is als'o a large swimmingbath 50ft long by J 24ft wide, and 7ft 111 depth' ai tho deep end and 2ft 6m at'tlje. eh Allow- end, whiV rouged around • ar& dressing boxes. ■ The building- designed- : ift Mr: Wiseman's office, is in free Queen. A'line style, and. has cost about £BOOO to ■<>ivct. ■ of : the fiiwßt rooms- 111 the< College'is tlifr ! -large.' ; fectut'e s hall ) 46ft .long,-, which: cam be divided off by partifcio»s. ( . it 'has what* is,' known as 'an open-, timber rbof, on the' bammer-beam>vstyle. The timber roofs :are indeed; &< beautiful feav .."ttire of !several >of thetn' be- v ; • ii}£ arcbedt * ~ ' ' '' ■- '