Our 60th Competition

Progress, Volume XIII, Issue 4, 1 December 1917, Page 75

Our 60th Competition

We offer a prize of £1 Is. Od. for the design adjudged to be the best for a Post and Telegraph Office for a small country town. To be erected in brick on a level section having a frontage of 40 feet to main street and 100 feet to a side street on the right. The accommodation to consist of (Ist) A public office with a counter 12 feet long, with six desks for the public use, a telephone sound proof box having access from the public office, (2nd) A well lighted mail room of about 400 square feet in area; (3rd) A private letter box lobby in contact with mail room for attending to boxes and with public access from outside the building by door in front or side wall (the nest of boxes is about 6 feet square) ; (4th) A telephone room, with access from mail room, about 8 feet by 5 feet. Provisions to be made for posting boxes in contact with mail room and with posting slots on outside of the building in a conspicuous position. There shall be on an upper floor or on the same floor if preferred the following living accommodation for a postmaster or postmistress:— (lst) A sitting room; (2nd) two bedrooms; (3rd) kitchen; (4th) small scullery; (sth) bath room— the usual pantry or cupboards. Outbuilding shall comprise a wash house, coals, and w.c. Drainage for bath and storm water to a sewer in front street. Drawings of two elevations, floor plans, and one section to be to .a scale of 8 feet to the inch finished in inkfor reproduction. Mr. Jno. Campbell, Government architect has kindly set this subject. Designs must be sent in finished as above, under a nom-de-plume addressed to “Progress,” 8 Parish Street, Wellington, and marked clearly “Sixtieth Competition ’’ on outside with a covering letter giving competitor’s name, and address of employer. Designs to be sent in by February 21st.