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Progress, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 1 July 1918, Page 243

Publisher’s Announcements. Our 64th Competition. We oiler a prize of £1 Is. for the design idjudged to be the best for , A Six-Roomed House with ground and first floor to he built on a flat suburban section with 150 feet frontage to a road running along its southern side. The materials to be used for outside walls to : any of the following: —Entirely brick; Brick covered with plaster or finished in any suitable manner; Brick plastered (rough ' or smooth) with quoins or facings of brick; Concrete plastered or finished in any other suitable manner; Concrete and brick combined. Hanging tiles or slates may be used in the gables. or elsewhere. Partitions to be shown 6 inches thick. Hoof to be covered with tiles or slates. The rooms, etc., to be approximately of the areas given below. Heights of ground floor to be 10 feet for main rooms, for first floor they are not to be less than 9 feet over half their area. Drainage into sewers (public), rain water into pits. The design for front fence, or wall, with gates (single and double) to be shown. Verandah on North side only. Bay windows or portico at the option of the designer. Sizes:Hall not less than 7 feet wide. Staircase not less than 3 feet wade. Drawing room about 300 square feet exclusive of window recesses. Dining room about 144 square feet. Kitchen 120 square feet. Scullery about 100 square feet. Bed room No. 1 same size as drawing room. Other two bed rooms not less than 170 square feet each. There must also be a safe, store room, bath room, W.C. (separate from the bath room), linen closet, etc. The laundry and outbuilding need not be included. Drawings to be to Jinch scale, finished in ink. Mr. F. de J. Clere, F.R.1.8.A., of Wellington, has kindly set this subject.