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SCHOOL RESIDENCES

: QUESTION OF ECGNOMI. : Tiio question of sconoiny wsi.s; raised at yesterday's, meeting of tlw?; Welling:ton Education Baa.rd. Mr, A. W. Ho.yg said that he bad qlraerved fram , ite rains that the Carrington , -Solioei resieteiico, .which was destroyed l>y fife-on JVue 3, had been a very sAfperlw buildjiig. Set* tiers told him tiat it was gb* of the finest houses in the' spttlcracftt, M& thought'the occasion a proper, time to express th> opinion thgt a, sinailor swd : less expensive- liouso taiuM .meet theease, and he suggested, that the board , ? Architect should bo asfteff to-design such a structure.

Sir Walter Buchanan sajfct that he was glad that Mir, Hocn had. bpou-gli'l the matter up. bsCSliso hn (Sit AV,titer,■ Buchanan) had frequently protested against, the orfraivftgaiißci eaimii-jtiel in authorising these buildings. Hft .'was •satisfied that ivastc had' Wj» going oil in thisdirection. and for some time ho had tried to woven;- it, hut his pretests had not hc-em heeded in the past., He was sure the hoard was 'sKXimi'si to make the teachers n's comfortabfe as possiblo, .but ft",was an easy jfiatiej* to spend money Tllcrc Was no doilht at nl'.—.ard lw fthsllmiged prmtradiction of it—th-ftt- the Size of tlie timbers in sow© of tlis hoard's buildings was in excess of yoascinaWo -requirements. ' . Tlio chairman (Mr, J. 0„ W. Aittom): Have we not- been, asked by the -Garernment to bvi';c our residences up- to a certain standard? Sir Walter nncluno.n:. With dIW regard to the ipquirenienls of the. locality The diseussimi. tlmH dropped, and Str, Hogg and the sscio.lar.v of the- Ward .(Mr. G. L. Stewart) reported th-.it tfay. had held, an Inquiry iiito the. matter af 11)6 fire. and. Coinu] that t/hc occurrence was purely aceirletttot. This report was adopted-by thrt board.

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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 10

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SCHOOL RESIDENCES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 10

SCHOOL RESIDENCES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 10

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