Aids to Architectural Taste.

Progress, Volume III, Issue 9, 1 July 1908, Page 315

Aids to Architectural Taste.

Our contempory, the Carpenter and Builder, is much exercised about the apathy with which even the triumphs of architecture are regarded by the general public, and proposes a remedy : ] . "The teaching of architecture in secondary schools, and evening continuation schools, not from the architectural student's point of view, but as a matter of general culture. 2. The publication in the general press of brightly written and well-informed articles on architecture. 3. The signing of their buildings, as pictures are signed, by the architects, so that the public may become familiar with the names and styles of the leading practitioners of the art." To which we say, "Amen," with pleasure.

Plans and specifications are being prepared for the erection of two residences at Khandallah. Architect, V,. W. G. Coleridge. ****** Decorations and renovations have just been completed to the Commercial Travellers' Club premises in Victoria street, Wellington. Architect, W. Charlesworth ; painter ,and decorator, W. Jennings.

Tenders are invited for supplying extensive shop fittings for Mr. J. L. Murray's new shop in Queen street, Masterton. Architect, J. Charlesworth. ****** A tender has been accepted at 10s, for the erection of a cottage at Island Bay. Architect, John S. Swan. ****** r Tenders will shortly be called for erecting the Te Aro Post and Telegraph Offices at the corner of Ghuznee and Leeds streets, Wellington, by the Public Works Department. Architect, J. Charlesworth. ****** The old Maori church at Otaki has for some time been causing anxiety as to its stability. The architect has made an examination of the church, and finds that many of the plates and other timber that are touching the ground are considerably decayed, and that the roof sarking, which is of white pine, is much worm eaten. In the main the building is in excellent preservation, and it is hoped^that with a new foundation, if it escapes the ravages of fire, this wonderful memento ofJMaori art may last for an indefinite period. Architect, F. d J. Clere, F R.1.8.A., Wellington.

Thk ancient seal of the town of Winchelsea, which was struck in 1280, has jnsi been restored to the corporation, after being out of its possession for more than a century. ****** Thf British Museum contains the oldest specimen of pure glass which bears any date. This is a little lion's head, having on it the name of an Egyptian king of the eleventh dynasty.