WORKMEN'S HOMES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8010, 22 December 1905, Page 2

WORKMEN'S HOMES.

AWARDS FOR COMPETITIVE DESIGNS. PER I'HESS ASSOCIATION". AVei,wxotos, December 21. The Government has completed the task of allotting awards for the competitive dosigns which wore invited from all parts of the colony.. Briefly, the conditions wore that the house should consist of five rooms, a bathroom, and ail modern conveniences. The cost was not to be more than £350 if built in brick, nor more than £-450 if built in wood. Over a hundred designs wore received, but not all from different competitors, some sonding two and more designs. The pi'iaos are:—First £IOO, second £SO, third £25, separate prizes being allotted for each Island. , For the North Island the first prizes for two designs were allotted, to Penty and Blake of Wellington; the second (equal) to Ponty and Blake and J. Hoggard, and the third (equal) to W. S. Young and J. Charlesworth. For the South Island the awards were : —-First (equal) Ponty and Blake, Wellington, and S. Hurst Seager, Clu'istchurch; second to J. L. Salinoncl of Dunedin; and third (equal) to J. L. Salmond and B. Hooper, Dunedin. Tho Government has decided to retain twenty other designs if the authors will accept a reasonable foe for them.