Competitions.

Progress, Volume XVI, Issue 7, 1 March 1921, Page 152

Competitions.

The competition recently inaugurated by the Auckland University has not yet been settled. It was decided to have the plans which were delayed through the shipping trouble in Australia dealt with equitably, and in consequence to postpone the adjudication of the competition.

Twenty-one competitive designs for the memorial to be erected in the grounds of the Auckland Grammar School in memory of old boys who fell in the war have been received by the Secretary of the Old Boys’ Association. Designs were sent in from all parts of the Dominion, and one was sent from Sydney. The memorial is to take the form of a monument, and is to cost £2,500 to erect.

The designs have been placed cn view at the Board of Governors room in Victoria Arcade. At the annual meeting of the Old Boys’ Association a committee comprising the headmaster of the school (Mr. J. W. Tibbs), the newly-elected President of the Association (Mr. H. Turnbull), ano several prominent old boys, was appointed to select the most suitable design.

The Minister of Education said in Dunedin that the cost of building was from 25 to 30 per cent, less in the South Island than in the North Island.

Reprinted from “ Commonsense Homes for New Zealanders.