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Progress, Volume X, Issue 3, 1 November 1914, Page 75

Publisher’s Announcements OUR DECEMBER ISSUE This issue will be a special building number, and will contain examples of. recently erected churches throughout New Zealand. Our 27th Competition for Architectural Students We offer a prize of £1 Is. Od. for the design awarded first place for a TRAMWAY WAITING PLACE with Newspaper Stall, #c. The adjudicators make the following remarks re this competition:“ln selecting this subject we have endeavoured to set your student readers the task of designing, in cheap, durable, and readily obtainable materials, such as would be employed by any City Authority, a very common desideratum for the convenience of the citizen, in such a way that it may be an ornament and not a disfigurement to its surroundings. We venture to think that our City Authorities might pay more attention to the artistic side of their erections and trust that the outcome of this competition may excite the interest of some of your numerous readers in the subject and show them what might be done towards the improvement of their Cities in this direction. This may also be regarded as an item in the Town Planning movement in which, like yourself, we are deeply interested.” The building is supposed to be situated facing on one side a principal thoroughfare with tramway and on the other a public reserve, and is to contain the following accommodation. 1. About 120 feet run of seating, including a portion facing the reserve to be so arranged that from whichever direction the wind may come some of the seating will be in the shelter. 2. Gentlemen’s toilet room containing two w.c’s., four urinals and one hand basin. 3. Ladies toilet room containing four