VENTILATION.

Evening Star, Issue 3334, 27 October 1873, Page 3

VENTILATION.

To the. Editor. Sir, — At a meeting held in Albany street, on Thursday evening last, for the purpose of adopting a fourth school, Dr Richardson commented on the desirability of “properly ventilated schools,” and stated that the only properly ventilated place in Dunedin was the Princess Theatre, The doctor cannot have gone into the Queen’s Theatre, or he certainly would not have asserted that there was no other ventilated building than the Piincess Theatre, as it is admitted by all who have been insido the former building that the ventilation and ac-mstic properties are the most complete in this town. I should have rendered the ventilation even more complete had the directors allowed money for that purpose ; and I have no doubt, had not the Queen’s Theatre been so perfect in ventilation and sound, the Princess Theatre would not up to the present time have been altered, had it been as perfect in those qualities as tho worthy doctor represents. _ I therefore think I may lay claim to having introduced a proper system of ventilation in Dunedin, which system, together with that of heating, I shall shortly havs an opportunity of introducing on a very large scale, and I am now prepared to apply it to any public building, when reqirrcd so to do. 1 see in the EvenINC; Sr-R of the 17th insfc. that the new Temperance Hall will bo ventilated on the same principle by Mr Forrest, the company’s architect, who was clerk of the works for the Queen’s Theatre, under my supervision. * pologiaing for taking up so much of your valuable space—l am, &c., F. J, Sanders, Architect and Surveyor. Dunedin, October 27.