Our Competitions.

Progress, Volume XV, Issue 12, 1 August 1920, Page 859

Our Competitions.

In response to 'numerous enquiries we have decided to re-commence our competitions for Architectural Students beginning with this issue. Mr. Leslie D. Coombs, A.R.1.8.A., of Dunedin, has set a subject for September—a Workman’s Cottage. Any bona fide student of architecture can enter for these competitions, which are run solely with the object of

giving the architect of the future the benefit of the wider experience of the professional architect, and we appeal both to the students and architects former to show their appreciation of the trouble the judges take for their benefit, and latter to send us carefully considered subjects which their experience shows will be of value to the younger members of their profession.

The Labour Department is experiencing some difficulty in erecting twelve workers’ cottages in Christchurch (says the “Lyttelton Times”). It has called for tenders, but all those sent in are higher than the maximum price fixed for these buildings, and the Department cannot accept them. Messrs. H. E. Moston and P. H. Graham, who are in charge of this branch of the Department’s work, are in Christchurch trying to find a way out of the difficulty. They expect to be able to make arrangements in a few days. These proposals will be submitted to the Government, and if approved the work of erecting the cottages may be put in hand soon. Messrs. Moston and Graham inspected the concrete blocks for building purposes made at the Templeton Prison. It is possible thatthese will be used in future building operations by the Department.