Public Notice.

Progress, Volume XII, Issue 3, 1 November 1916, Page 794

Public Notice.

The Proprietors (Vandervell & Midgley) of Letters Patent of New Zealand No. 30588 for an invention relating to "Variable Speed Self-regulating Dynamo Electric Machines " are desirous of disposing of the said Letters Patent, or of granting licenses thereunder, in order that the invention may be carried out in New Zealand. For particulars address — BALDWIN & RAY WARD, Patent Attorneys, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin.

The preparation of the ground will be taken in hand immediately, fences and trees removed, and minor preparation of the surface attended to. Hangars and repairing shops will be built, and accommodation provided for staff and pupils. The pupils will be provided with sleeping and living accommodation, lighting and firing, bathrooms, and a small library of flying literature, also a tennis court for exercise on non-flying days, but will probably be invited to run their own mess, as is commonly done in similar institutions elsewhere. DUNEDIN. Mr. J. A. Burnside reports the following works recently completed:Additions to residence of the late John McKenzie at Shag Point; much of the original building was pulled down before additions were made; Wizard' lighting was installed; contractor, Mr. W. G. Wallace. A ten-romed brick residence in London Street, contractor Mr. J. Minn. An addition of 10 rooms to the " Greencliff Tea Rooms," St. Clair, contractor Mr. Shaw Cresland. Alterations to a shop in Octagon, contractor Mr. J. L. Hamilton. A six-roomed wooden residence at St. Clair, contractor Mr. Shaw Cresland. A six-rooomed brick residence at Kaikorai, being erected by day labour. Mr.' Leslie D. Coombs, A.R.1.8.A., reports that contracts have been recently let for the following:—Besidenee at Paretai, Messrs. Hutchins & Jones, contractors. Two new shop fronts in Octagon, C. W. George contractor. Additions and alterations to residence at St. Clair, Mr. Henry Abbott, contractor. Verandahs to three shops in Octagon, J. L. Hamilton, contractor. Additions and alterations to residence, Pino, Hill Street. Mr. D. G. Mowat reports as follows: —A brick Factory in Hanover Street, (60 ft. x 40 ft.) just on completion, Robert Crawford & Co., contractors. A Residence at St. Clair (wood with Poilite sheeting on outer wall and plastered and finished in white rough cast, Marseilles tile roof and granite plaster for interior finish), W. H. Naylor, contractor. Proposed alterations and additions to premises in Moray Place for Messrs. Mackay,

Logan & Caldwell Ltd. of Dunedin taking the form of two additional storeys and alterations to the interior to suit the requirements of the firm. OTAGO.

The Dunedin City Council called for competitive designs for shelter conveniences and other buildings at St. Clair early this month. Mr. P. Y. Wales is Assessor. Mr. Geo. Simpson, builder of this city, gave a paper before the Technological branch of the Otago Institute last month in which he dealt with various aspects of the war and its relation to the cost of building. “There will be a great boom in the building trade, not only here, but all over the world, after the war ceases” said the speaker. Mr. Simpson believes that people who are holding back in the expectation that building will be cheaper after the war are making a great mistake. His reason for so thinking is that the enormous amount of rebuilding required in such places as the North of France after the rear will keep prices up. Then here we have largely stopped building during the past two years, and the same thing has happened in the Old Country, so that the moment the war stops there will be a vast amount of building work to be gone on with.

PALMEESTON NORTH. New buildings are about to be erected in King Street, Palmerston North, for Messrs. Collinson & Cunningham Ltd. to drawings of Messrs. P. de J. Clere & Son, Reg. Architects. WELLINGTON. The question of a new building for the Technical School has again been raised at the Education Board's meeting last month. The Chairman, Mr. J. G-. W. Aitken, said that if the Government did nothing in this direction the Board could not undertake the responsibility for technical education in Wellington. He further said that if the Government would go on with the construction of the building the City Council would give a donation of £IO,OOO, and with a grant of £IO,OOO from the Government, a building could be erected which would satisfy the needs of Wellington for some time. Wellington had been very unfairly treated in regard to technical education in the past. Buildings had been erected in other smaller towns, as for instance, in Wanganui, which would almost satisfy the needs of Wellington. The Minister of Education (at a deputation meeting from the Board) was sympathetic to the movement, but could do nothing till the war was over—or at any rate till Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward returned from England.

Experiments are being made by the Wellington Education Board with open-air class-rooms, and experience to date favours the extension of the scheme. Recently the board approved plans for an open-air class-room at Lansdowne School, near Masterton. The plans for this room embodied suggestions made as the result of experience at South Wellington. The dimensions of the room will be 30ft. by 24ft., with a full length corridor behind the room. The essential idea in the structure is that it can be opened to admit the free passage of air on three sides in fair weather, but that when the weather is too boisterous to permit of work being carried on under these conditions the room can be closed in. No provision is made, ever, for artificial heating. One side of the room consists of French windows opening outwards, and the other two sides of horizontal sliding windows, all of which can be opened or shut at will. The one point to be emphasised concerning the use of these rooms is that both pupils and teachers must be warmly clad in cold weather. In Canada the rooms are used throughout the winter, and children are habituated to do without artificial heat even when snow is on the ground. A letter was received from the Department, asking the Board to forward approved plans for types of school buildings. The chairman said that this was the letter that had roused the ire of the Auckland and Dunedin Boards..

Mr. Kebbell said that the Department might long- ago have saved the boards hundreds of pounds , by supplying plans prepared by the Department’s own architect for schools of various sizes.

Later, in committee, the board decided to recommend the Education Department to call a conference of boards’ architects, with a view of determining standard plans for schools to suit New Zealand conditions.