Feilding State School

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 29, 21 August 1884, Page 2

Feilding State School

As ihe F eilding school can "be fairly considered to be now oat of the contractors' bands, the following description of the building may be of interest to our readers : — Entering the building from the porch nearest to the centre of tbe town we fir3t obserre the girla' lavatory and > cloak-loom, which is now fitted with t " tip tip " basins and is well provided > with pegs, the new one* being of wrought . iron and consequently are much stronger t than the old fashioned cast iron ones I which have been, until quite recently, t used in the schools in the district. . From t this porch we turn into a corridor, which ' I gives access to all the rooms; and this, j we would remark, is a great advantage to the school, for under the old arrangement the different rooms simply led one t from another. To the right of the pasv c sage is the main room of the building, ' c 39ft. x 22tt., and to the left is a class a room, 3< )f t. x 19ft., and the infants' roon>, a 45 ft. x 19ft. 4in., while at the end is the t new class room, 35ft. x 20ft. All the b rooms have now their side walls 14ft. t high, and what with the extra windows : I inserted, and the new painting, tb» build- - ■ ing now forms one of the best schools in - ' \ the district, and to those who knew what i the old place was this will show what credit mast be due to the architects, builders and all others concerned in the transformation. The old building was inconveniently planned, and / : dreary, and stuffy; the hew building is bright, airy, convenient, and cheerful. The work included in Messrs Watts and B Bilderbeck's contract was generally, to build the new room, alter the lavatories, } enlarge the infants' room and, boild * new gallery therein, and to raise the I old building bodily, four feet. For the manner in which the work has beenlcar- , ried out the contractors deserve the highest praise, the matter of raising the L old building being deemed by many as almost impossible to be done, excepting at very great expense, onr account of the 1 want of connection between the walls of ihe three rooms which were built at different .periods. Not only, however, did the contractors raise the whole buildings, but did so, we understand [ without loosening a single board or , cracking a pane of glass in any of the snßhes. The contract price for the works we have mentioned was £446 10s, and the whole has been executed from the designs, and under the superintendance, of Messrs Atkins and Clere, architects to the Wanganui Education Board.