Our 71st Competition.

Progress, Volume XVI, Issue 5, 1 January 1921, Page 116

Our 71st Competition.

We offer a prize of .£1 is. for the design adjudged

the best for a

MEMORIAL WALL TABLET suitable to be erected in a church or public building.

The material to be stone or wood and the general dimensions of the tablet to be somewhere about four feet by three feet, and it may be placed either vertically or horizontally. Phis is only to be taken as a rough indication of the size of the tablet.

The following inscription must be shown on the panel, "To the Glory of God and in memory of Charles J. Braid, Lieutenant, of this parish, who served and was killed in the Great War, 1914-1918. Aged 23 years.”

The object of this competition is to endeavour to influence and improve the designs and lettering which are at present being carried out in erecting memorial tablets. Students, therefore, must show by their work that the subject has been given some study, and that they have gone to proper sources for examples and information. Unfortunately, the assessor knows of only one good example, viz., the Memorial Tablet in the entrance hall of the Wellington Technical College. This memorial was designed by Mr. Joseph Ellis, and both it and the lettering are worthy of study. Students are further referred to examples of tablets and lettering which have appeared from time to time in the “Architectural Review” and the “Architects’ Journal.” The lettering must be based on good Roman models, and Lewis F. Day’s book may be consulted. The new title on “ Progress” is also excellent.

The drawings •to be to a scale of two inches to one foot, and to show an elevation, plan, and vertical section to wall-line and must be. in black ink lines, without shading or colouring 'of any kind.

A complete alphabet must also be shown in black ink lines to half full size of the letters of the inscription. Mr. William M. Page, A.N.Z.LA., of Wellington, will adjudicate.

Designs must be sent in under a nom-de-plume, addressed to the Editor, “N.Z. Building Progress,” 22, Wingfield Street, Welllington, and clearly marked “ Seventy-first ” Competition on outside, with a covering letter giving competitor’s name, and address of principal. Designs must be sent in on or before February 27th.