Building Notes

Progress, Volume XIII, Issue 2, 1 October 1917, Page 46

Building Notes

AUCKLAND. During the month the foundation stone to a new annexe to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital was laid. The addition to the hospital comprises a separate block in brick, only the first section of which is to be erected at present. This section will, at a cost of about £5,000, provide 17 single bedrooms for patients, and will include an up-to-date operating-room, besides a surgeons' room, X-ray-room, chemical laboratory, and anaesthetic

chamber. At the rear of the building will be a new sanitary tower of a temporary description. Mr. I). P. Patterson is the hon. architect and Mr. C. A. Jones the builder. The North Auckland Freezing Co. after a good deal of discussion have resolved on the motion of Mr. Vernon Reed. that the directors be authorised to erect the works on the railway line between Okaihau and Opua, and if they considered any other site to be to the advantage of the company they shall consult the shareholders before coming to a decision. The new company has been successfully floated, 37,600 shares having been applied for. At a lecture given in the Grafton Library last month Professor Maxwell Walker said in regard to applying Continental town-planning schemes to Auckland city, that the present time was most opportune for carrying out extensive beautifying schemes, as in the near future the high price of land would prevent the consideration of such ventures. Several schemes, including the laying out of the new Auckland railway station, were outlined. The schema by which the Mangere Road Board should assume control of the Mangere water supply, in place of the Domain Board, was approved at a recent meeting of Mangere ratepayers. Application has been made to the Government for a loan of £3,000 for reticulation purposes, and a rating area is now being defined. Water will be drawn from the Onehunga reservoir at a cost of lOd. per 1,000 gallons. It is hoped that the system will be in working order before the dry weather sets in. Auckland, like Wellington, badly needs a new museum building, and a movement is on foot to gather in donations for the purpose of erecting a suitable building after the war. The creditors of a bankrupt builder named T. H. Williams passed the following resolution with one dissentient:"That creditors are of opinion that bankrupt has been guilty of fraudulent practices, and request the official assignee to take proceedings against him.*' Messrs. Wade and Wade called for tenders early this month for a house at Peilding. Tenders were called for the erection in brick of an Infant School at Newmarket for the Education Board.