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Hall, Claus rooms and offices shewn in these plans has been designed in close accordance as far as possible with the Memorandum of requirements recently furnished by M. Balison Wright M.A. the present Head master.
which This memorandum, a copy of which is appended, set forth the wants of the Educational Department so clearly that I have had little difficulty in following its suggestions.
the City is built, it has not been possible to procure a level piece of grounds for the proposed Institution, and I have therefore had to do the best I could with a site somewhat unfavourable and discouraging in respect of shape and configuration, for it not only slopes very steeply from South to North but also from East to West.
4. The whole area occupied by the school premises is 20170 sq. ft.
3. Owing to the strongly marked declivity on which the whole of the school premises formally was covered with private dwelling-houses and when these were cleared,
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