Building Notes.

Progress, Volume XVII, Issue 4, 1 December 1921, Page 94

Building Notes.

AUCKLAND., • It is proposed to build a new Theological College for the training of Methodist theological students, and for local preachers and Sunday School teachers. A site is being purchased of sufficient size to include a hostel in addition to the College. Authority to raise ,£5,000 on debentures, in addition to the ,£20,000 already raised by this means, has been granted the Auckland Hospital Board. This money is to be devoted to the Board's general building programme. Referring to this matter recently, the chairman of the Board, Mr. W. Wallace, said there was a great deal of money offering just 'now. • for hospital purposes. The amount already raised, he said, was for work previously completed, and which had been paid for by overdraft, and also for the erection of the Waiuku Cottage Hospital, for which tenders were to be invited at an early date. This hospital, said Mr. Wallace, was to be used chiefly for maternity cases and for minor cases of accident and sickness. " So far as the building programme of the Board was concerned, Mr. Wallace said the most important work was the extension of the Nurses' Home. He had previously emphasised the fact that without adequate accommodation for the nursing staff further accommodation 'for patients would be useless. In the near future the Board would be able to get money for this purpose, and then the building programme would be gone on without delay. '-''.

During the month the following tenders were invited : Messrs. Hartley and Draffin, bungalow at Takapuna; Mr. F. A. Browne, house, Remuera; Mr. A. A. lan, concrete house, Mt. Albert; Mr. Daniel B. Patterson, house in wood, Remuera; Messrs. Chilwell and Trevithick, residence in brick, Grafton Road. Tenders closed early this month for five workers' dwellings in Grey Lynn. CHRISTCHURCH. Messrs. J. S. and M. J. Guthrie invited tenders early this month for a Memorial Town Hall and Library at Papanui. The same architects invited tenders for three cottages for the Waimairi County Council. Messrs. England Bros, invited tenders last month for the erection in brick and stone of a Methodist Church, Cashmere Hills. Messrs. Collins and Harman invited tenders for additions to Pathological Department, Christchurch Hospital. Instructions were issued by the Town Clerk to the architects early this month to take in hand with all possible despatch the preparation of the working plans and specifications for the new municipal buildings in Manchester Street, the loan for which was recently authorised, and the money required raised. It is hoped that the plans will be ready in a month's time, whereupon tenders will be called for the erection of the building. Six of the workers' dwellings in the Northcote Settlement, Papanui, are nearing completion. All have not yet been applied for, and the local bureau of the Department of Labour is still receiving applications. FOXTON. Tenders are invited for the erection of a reinforced concrete water tower (123,000 gallons capacity).

HAMILTON. -=s==-rr^ r " For the year ending March, 1921, the figures for buildings erected show a total value of £291,008. A total of 308 dwellings were erected at a cost of £230,236, and 75 business premises of a value of £40,644. The year's total was a record, but just a record for the amount, for the previous came within £258 of the figure. That year also was a record in respect to building. . This year so far the same rate is not being maintained, the total, for the six months ending on September being £98,538. This amount, however, does not include the fine two-storeyed building being erected by the State Fire Office, next to the Chief Post Office. NEW PLYMOUTH. In referring to the new Taranaki Club building in our April number, we stated that Mr. Thos. H. Bates, of New Plymouth, and Messrs. Clere and Williams, of Wellington, invited tenders for the erection of the building. This statement was an error on our part, as Mr. Bates was the sole architect for the work and had merely arranged to have the plans deposited for inspection at Messrs. Clere and Williams' office in the same way as they were de-

posited in other architects' offices in other centres. We regret that this error on our part may have caused any wrong ' impression as to who was the architect for this important work. i PAPAKURA. Mr. E. Rupert Morton, of Auckland, invited tenders early this month for a house to be erected at Papakura. WAIMAUKU. A new Anglican church, named St. Martin's, was dedicated at Waimauku recently by Archdeacon Mac Murray. The church has been erected to the memory of the men of the district who lost their lives in the Great War. The building has a seating capacity of 120, is lighted with Gothic leadlights throughout, and is well furnished. WELLINGTON. The City Council received nine tenders, including one from Switzerland and one from Sweden, for its new electric works, involving some ,£400,000, subject to a loan being raised. A tender by the Metropolitan Vickers Company, of Manchester, has been accepted for a 5,000-kilo-watt alternator and condensing plant,, and Babcock and Wilcox's tender has been accepted for boilers, etc., but the prices are not disclosed.