proposed new
Kat
wing, and calculated a basement providing
a covered
playground for wet and hot weather and two stories, the lower to consist
of
schoolroome and the upper of
dormitories with rooms
for
one or
two Masters would cost about
$8,000. As in the
grant-in
wraid Scheme it is stated that "the grants
"
made by the Government for building, enlarging, improving or fitting up public Schools are not to exceed me half of the actual cost," the
Committee took for granted that at least half of the cost might be expected
from the
the Government.
An
- appeal was therefore made to the
Jublic
for
8
4,000, and the
Committee have nows in hand of $4,200. The Architect
t
has recently prepared the plans and drawn out the specifications, and funds that the sum he -
menhoned
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mentioned in the first wist an ce
will be excel de d
by
$1500 or more,
The Contractors who have sent in
Estimates and are the most.
worthy of confidence place the entire cost at from $9000 to $9600. The
only saving Architect could suggest was the verandaho an
omitting
upper storey facing
East, and se
and substit
North
the
the
!
awa
substituting inferior material for the floor. After much corisideration, the Committee,
-
consisting of the Anible I. d. leswick, His Aonour Sir James Russell, Hoss:
I Brown, Mr. Ackroyd, Acting
Prusine Judge,
Mr. Palmer and
myself, (Hon. C. R. Chater, Mr. Justice Friciding Clarke Mr. A. B.
umphreys
I. Jonson and Mr. J. B. Hun.
being absent)
absent) came to the
concliviar that the whole work
including absolutely necessary and
unhappily
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