Building Notes.

Progress, Volume XV, Issue 9, 1 May 1920, Page 797

Building Notes.

AUCKLAND. . A new six-storeyed home for nurses, is to be added to the Auckland hospital. The plans' have been approved by the Hospital Board, and the building is to be of reinforced concrete with brick foundations. The plans are by the Board's architect, Mr. AlLop, who has recently returned from a trip through the United States and England. The building will have a frontage to Bark Eoad, on the site at present occupied by the old nurses' home. The plans provide for 150 bedrooms. After allowing for 96 nurses who are at present in temporary quarters, there will be rooms for 50 additional nurses. Provision i; made for the lady superintendent. and three lady doctors, and a large lecture hall and sick-ward for nurses, are also included in the plans. Proposals for remodelling the steam-heating

service at the hospital were submitted by Mr. H. A. Walker, consulting engineer to the board. It was recommended that the atmospheric, or vacuum, system' should be installed in place of steam radiators. . Tins would necessitate the use of two .boilers, which the board had already purchased, and other extensions would have to be made to the plant. The proposals formed part of the scheme whereby the institution would have its own electric-lighting installation. It was decided that one of the boilers be installed at once, to afford relief during the winter, and the architect and engineer were instructed to confer regarding the preparation of plans for, suitable buildings to house the complete plant. Air. E. Hammond invited tenders during the month for a house in wood at Mt. Eden. Plans and specifications, to be seen at the offices of Messrs Hoggard and Prouse, and W. 11. Gumnier, N.Z. Insurance Buildings." The Education Board invited tenders through the Board's Architect, Mr. John Farrell, for a new school at Tuakau in brick; additions in brick to school, Whitiora; erection of new school at VV'hangarei Heads; erection of new school in, wood, at Okahukura; erection of new school building in brick, at Remuera, and a teacher's residence at Ngatea. Messrs Fleming, McDonald and T. 0. Mullions invited tenders for the erection of a house at Westfield. CHRISTCHURCH. Messrs Collins, Harnian and Mannings invite tenders for additions to a church at Darfield, and also for two residences in-Clyde Road, Christchurch, in wood. Messrs J. S. and M. ,1. Guthrie invited tenders, for a house at Amberley during the month. Mr. G. T. .Lucas invited tenders for a brick residence at ■Lyttclton, and alterations to the Vicarage at Fendalton. Messrs Ellis and Hall invited tenders for a house at Ashburton (in brick and wood). FEILDING. 'The Wanganui' Education Board invite tenders for the erection of a Technical School at Eeilding. Plans, can be seen at Canterbury Education Board's offices. ' MASTERTON. . _ Messrs .Watson and Gooder invite tenders, for the .erection in brick of a residence for Mr. R. McKenzie. WELLINGTON. The housing shortage was responsible for a labour rally in the form of a public meeting held in the Town Hall this month at which the following motion was moved and carried:—That as the 'shortage of houses is more acute than at any time in the history cf the Dominion, that as families have frequently to live in single rooms, that as no proper housing accommodation is available for the people already in the country, that as every immigrant family arriving renders the ■ situation more serious, that as. many of the houses.inhabited are dilapidated, unhealthy and insanitary, and a considerable ' number actually condemned by the Health authorities, this meeting demands that Parliament make adequate provision, financially and otherwise, for an organised housing scheme on a sufficient scale to remedy the present shortage of housing accommodation, and thus meet the needs of the people. This meeting further demands that as the shortage of houses is more acute than in 1916, when the first war legislation protecting tenants was passed, and as all such'war legislation will be automatically repealed in August next, thus rendering a ll tenants, including discharged soldiers and their-dependents, liable to exorbitant increases, of rent, and to eviction without any protection whatever, that ■ the war legislation which .limits rents be embodied in ordinary Statutory law and that clause 56 of the Housing Act, 1919, be amended so as to secure to all tenants the protection at present accorded to soldiers,, discharged soldiers, and the. wives and mothers oi_ soldiers, and discharged soldiers., "