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Tβ Oranga Home. —The electric motor has been attended to at regular periods, and repair work done. Receiving-home, Christchurch. —Minor works in connection with maintenance have been attended to. Probation Officers , Home. —A new wash-basin has been supplied and fixed, also repairs to the house have been carried out. Defence Department. Whangarei. —The erection of the new rifle range has been completed. Auckland. —Accommodation has been provided at the drill-hall for a motor. The roof of the main building has been repaired and repainted. Four T.B. shelters have been erected for soldier patients. Narrow Neck Gamp. —Repairs have been carried out to married men's quarters. Cambridge. —The whole of the exterior woodwork of the drill-hall and outbuildings has been painted and renovated. Ruakura Experimental Farm. —A new building for the purpose of housing the electric-light engine and plant has been erected. A duplication of No. 1 Block as far as the quarters are concerned has been carried out, and an additional building for recreation-room and store-room has been built. An additional kitchen-room has been provided to cope with the extra number of soldiers. A store, 90 ft. by 30 ft. in concrete is in course of erection and is close to completion. A transformer-house, 30 ft. by 20 ft., also in concrete, is in course of erection. The building of two cottages in concrete blocks is in hand, and one is nearly completed. New Plymouth. —The floors of the Coronation Hall have been repaired, and a miniature rifle range has been installed at one end of this building. General repairs have been effected to the Rewa Rewa Rifle Range. Napier. —Electric light has been installed, and general repairs have been effected to floors and sashes. The iron for reroofing the building is in hand. The yard at the Artillery Barracks has been re-formed and metalled. The window-opening at the magazine has been bricked up and the door strengthened. Roy's Hill Rifle Range. —Repairs to targets, &c, have been effected. Hastings. —The renovations at the drill-hall are practically completed. Pukeora Sanatorium, Hospital Ward. —Good progress has been made with the erection of this building out of material taken from Featherston Camp. Masterton. —Alterations have been effected to the drill-hall offices. Wellington. —Extensive alterations to Buckle Street offices are being effected to provide accommodation for the Base Records and War Expenses Branches. At headquarters a skylight was installed, a number of rooms were renovated, and repairs were effected to the drains and sanitary fittings. The heating system in the Whitmore Street office was overhauled ; the roofs were painted and improvements were effected to the ventilation. T.B. shelters for Korokoro and Wadestown were erected by the Public Works staff. At Alexandra Barracks repairs were effected to the heatingboiler and kitchen-sink. The Kaiwarra Magazine buildings and cottage were painted and renovated. Five of the Naval offices in Harcourt's Building were renovated. The exterior of the Ordnance Stores was painted, and repairs were effected to the workshop furnace. The electric-light gear at Karori School grounds, which were formerly used for parade purposes, was dismantled. Repairs to the Garrison Hall were carried out. At Polhill Gully rifle range a gas cooker was put in in the caretaker's cottage. Nelson. —The inside walls and ceiling of the 12th Regimental Store have been covered with beaver-boards, rifle-racks constructed, and the building painted externally. A veranda for the use of invalided soldiers was enclosed with boarding to a certain height and then filled in with hinged sashes. Stoke. —A portion of the target-gallery embankment has been turfed. Christchurch. —Many T.B. huts and tents have been erected and fitted out in various parts of the district, as requested by the Defence Department. Duvauchelle's Bay. —General repairs to the rifle range have been carried out. Kaiapoi. —General repairs to the rifle range were also carried out here. Hanmer. —At Queen Mary Hospital minor repairs and supplies were attended to. Erskine Point Magazine. —This building has been repaired. Hanmer Pipe-line. —Various repairs have been effected to this line. Kensington Drill-hall. —The caretaker's residence has been renovated. Central Battery. —Alterations to the garage have been carried out. Invercargill. —Defence Department's offices were shifted from Defence Buildings to new offices. Several collapsible shelters were repaired and others erected for T.B. patients. Winton Drill-hall. —Repairs to the floor have been carried out. John Campbell, F.R.1.8.A., Government Architect.

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