Building Notes

Progress, Volume XVI, Issue 7, 1 March 1921, Page 164

Building Notes

AUCKLAND. Messrs. McDonald, Mullions and Smith, architects, invite tenders for the erection of a ferro-concrete building for offices on the corner of Princes and Shortland Streets for the Waitemata and Manukau County Councils. The New Zealand Government Railways tender for the erection of men’s cottages' of 5 and 6 rooms for railway employees, closed on the 2nd of this month. The P.W. Department invited tenders for the erection of a Post Office at Henderson. The tender of Mr. Douglas Jack for ,£1,663 for extensions to the engineering building of the University was accepted by the Board last month. A campaign, to raise £ 10,000 for a new mission house is about to be launched by the Grey Street Mission conducted by the Order of the Good Shepherd. The sum of £1,470 is in hand, and an organised effort is to be made to raise the balance. The new Technical High School at Pukekohe was officially opened last month by the Prime Minister. The new school, which is situated within easy distance of the main street and the railway station, is substantially built of red brick. Attached to it are 15 acres of ground, giving ample room for expansion, playing areas, and agricultural plots. The buildings themselves, which cost some £g,ooo, provide four main class rooms, one large laboratory, library, and numerous other offices. They are lighted by electricity, to allow of night classes being held. CHRISTCHURCH. A new school at Opawa was opened by the Hon. C. J. Parr last month. It is a brick structure, with four class rooms fitted to accommodate 240 pupils. When it is possible to have the whole school for Opawa under one roof, the old building now reserved for the infants will be disposed of. The new school is well appointed, and stands in the centre of four and a-half acres of ground, which will be utilised for playing areas and for gardens. The building was erected by the Canterbury Education Board’s staff of workmen, Mr. B. Riley acting as foreman of works. The Hon. C. J. Parr said that he had great pleasure in officially opening the new school. It was originally proposed that £2,500 should be spent in building a school on the old site, but —fortunately, he thought —wiser counsels had prevailed, and the advisability of having the new school on another site was stressed by the School Committee. He paid a tribute to the sagacity of the Committee in taking up the attitude it had, and now Opawa could be congratulated in that it had got in early and had obtained a new school on spacious grounds, before the Government’s money became short. The new school was built on modern lines, and he would like to see every school in New Zealand like it. He congratulated the Canterbury Education Board on the modern method in which the building had been erected. He would like to see the new school completed as soon as possible, so that all the classes could be encompassed in the one building, and the old school building could be disposed of, but as there were so many claims for school buildings and additions being made, it might be some time before anything more could be done for Opawa. The Christchurch City Council invite tenders for small additions in brick to the Public Baths. HAMILTON. The New Zealand Dairy Co-operative Co., Ltd., invited tenders for a six-roomed house, 2 five-roomed and 5 four-roomed houses. MASTERTON. The extensive alterations at St. Bride’s. Convent, Masterton, are now nearing completion. The additions to St. Patrick’s School are also making steady progress. Both buildings are being considerably enlarged,

ASHBURTON. The Hospital Board have been promised a £ for £ subsidy by the Government up to £'25,000 for extensions to the hospital buildings, including extra w r ard rooms and remodelling the institution, and building a residence for the medical superintendent. WELLINGTON. The Wellington Harbour Board invite tenders, closing April 20th, for the construction of a reinforced concrete store on Waterloo Quay Reclamation. Advice has been received from the Education Department by the Wellington Education Board that an additional £7,000 had been voted for extending the Training College. The Acting-Chairman, Mr. G. London, said the Board’s proposals involved an expenditure of £IO,OOO, and, according to the Principal of the College, the carrying out of the plans was necessary, as the number of teachers had doubled in the last few years. It was decided to forward to the Minister a copy of the Principal’s letter on the subject, along with a request for the additional £3,000.