Our 47th Competition

Progress, Volume XII, Issue 1, 1 September 1916, Page 711

Our 47th Competition

Publisher’s Announcements.

We offer a prize of £1 10 for the design adjudged to be the best for a Country School for a maximum of a 160 boys and girls of various ages. Accommodation required :—l. — lnfant room and Ist standard. 2.— 2nd and 3rd standard’s room. 3.— 4th standard’s room. 4.—sth standard’s room. 5. 6th form. 6. — Small room for teachers with fire place ; ample cloak accommodation ; lavatory accommodation ; playing sheds for boys, girls and infants. Heating need not be provided for; walls to be of brick or concrete; drainage to Septic tank ; ventilation to be indicated ; ample

provision to be made for insuring abundance of fresh air from the windows; a short index specification of materials to accompany the drawings ; drawings to be finished in pencil and coloured. Drawings required :—Block plan of whole site showing lay out of sheds and playing areas, scale twenty feet to the inch ; ground floor plan to Jinch scale 2 elevations Jinch scale 2 sections jinch scale; £inch detail of some feature of building. Estimated cost to be stated of school building only ; drawings of playing sheds are not required.

Mr. H. Mandeno of Dunedin has kindly set this subject. Designs must be sent in, finished as above, under a nom-de-plume, addressed to Progress, 8 Parish Street Wellington, and marked clearly, ‘’Forty-seventh Prize Competition” on outside with a covering letter giving competitor’s name, and address of employer. Designs to be sent in by October 10th.