A FINE BUILDING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1939, Page 3

A FINE BUILDING

THE NEW EXTENSION WING AT SEDGLEY PRESENT ACCOMMODATION ALMOST DOUBLED. MODERN DORMITORIES & SOCIAL ROOMS. Finished in attractive tones of buff, the new extension wing added to the Sedgley Boys’ Home, High Street. Masterton, embraces the most modern facilities for the well-being of the yotinge* folk placed under the care of the home authorities. The new building, which is a substantial one-storey structure of reinforced concrete, has a length of about 130 feet, with a wing 39ft wide and 69ft in depth and an accessory wing, at the other end of the main portion of the building, 21ft wide and 47ft in length. A corridor 75ft in length runs along the length of the main building, giving ready access from the l kitchen, dining and recreation rooms to the dormitories on the wing. Provision is made so that an additional wing may be added at some future date. The new building almost doubles the accommodation of the home, which will be able to cater for the wants of 32 boys. The wing at the western end of the building includes three eight-bed dormitories and two four-bed dormitories, features of which are the pivot windows (the architect’s own patent) and the seven-foSt inside walls with open tops, so as to allow free ventilation. A sick room, two staff rooms, stall bathroom and conveniences arc also included in this wing. For the use of the boys a large bathroom will be fitted with, four sunken tiled baths, with tile surrounds, hot and cold water and showers giving water from cold to hot. whatever degree is required. Wash basins and towel racks will complete the fittings. The commodious recreation and dining rooms are divided by folding doors, so that one large room is available for social gatherings. The kitchen is fitted with all the latest appliances including a coke cooker, sufficient to cater for the needs of forty people and which, it is claimed, recmires stoking only twice a day and is most economical in fuel consumption. There are two-way cupboards, a meat safe and larder, while in another wing is a store room, separator room, laundry, with gas copper, furnace room for the hot water system and a drying room, in which is installed a dryer worked off the hot water system. The home, following on the completion of the new building, will have accommodation for 32 boys. Sedgley is run in conjunction with the Anglican Boys' Home. Lower Hutt, from which institution the senior boys, at the age of 13 years, are transferred to Sedgley for a period of three years.