NEW PARLIAMENT HOUSE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3334, 28 September 1911, Page 3

NEW PARLIAMENT HOUSE.

THE COMPETITIVE DESIGNS. GOVERNMENT ARCHITECT DIVIDES FIRST PRIZE. tPUE PRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, Sept. 27. The report of Colonel Vernon, the adjudicator of the competitive designs for a new Parliament House, was submitted to a committee of both Houses to-day. The adjudicators awarded tinprizes as follows: — First prize, £1000: John Campbell (Government architect) and Claud Pattern (Wellington). Second prize, £500: Thomas Turnbul. and Son; and J. S. Sodden. Third prize, £300: W. H. Gummer (Auckland). Fourth prize, £200: John Campbell and Ohas. A.- Lawrence (Wellington). .Fifth prize: Geo. A. Troup and W. G. Young (Wellington). Sixth prize: H. A. Muuran and l R. A. Owen (Auckland). Seventh prize: H. C. Grierson (Auckland) . Eighth prize: Hurst, Seagar and Har t (Uhristchurch). Ninth prize: Fleming Macdonald, and W. Dunning (Dunedin). The other competitors without relation to their relative positions were:— A. D. Spiers (.Picton), R. L Lowersh (Auckland), Blake and Bennie (Wellington), Beere, T. Greenish (Wellington), G. A. Troup and Gray Young (Wellington), W. N. Page (Wellington), Troup, L. D. Coomhes (Dunedin! F. W. Petrie Young and' Geo. Robb (Wellington), (Dunedin), D Murray Kean (Wellington). L. Mitchell and Co. (Wellington), D. B. Patterson (Auckland), W. Houlker, junr. (Nelson), Charlesworth and Callender (Wellington), G. West and Son (Palmerston North), G. G. Schwartz (Wellington), B. J. Ager (Christchurch). O’Connor and Bartley (Auckland), Salmond and Vanes (Dunedin), E. Ansombe (Dunedin), J. C. Maddison (Christchurch) 2 designs. 0. A. Jorgensen (Palmerston North), J. Charlesworth (Wellington)/ • Sir Joseph Ward stated that Cabinet would go through all the designs, and members would also have an omwrtunity of viewing them. If in the opinionl of Cabinet, the first prize design was the best for the building, Government would reocommend it, hut it did not follow that any of the designs would be adopted.

TO BE READY IN 1913. (From our Parliamentarv Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Sept, 27. A sum of £2OOO was voted last night for repairs to and maintenance of the present Parliament House. When the public buildings estimates were being considered, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. W. F. Massey) asked how much longer Parliament would be required to remain in the wretched old tumble-down shed which it now occupied. He asked how the £2OOO voted last session had been expended, and why a similar amount appeared this year. The Minister for Public Works (the Hon. R. McKenzie) said the wooden building now occupied by Parliament was 38 years old, and'naturally-the repairs and maintenance cost a good deal. Speaking of the new Parliament House, Mr McKenzie said that the plans would be ready for examination by members probably by the end of the week. He had high hopes that the foundations would be commenced as soon as members left at the end of the present session, and that by the end of the 1913 session the new buildings would he ready for occupation. He promised to supply information regarding the cost of alterations and maintenance since the fire of 1907, when l the public works estimates were.before the house.