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Opportunities for
Business
New South Wales.
Tenders are invited for the erection
of a brick memorial building at
Jerv
ildcrie.
The architects are Carlcton &
Henderson,
346
Swanston
St.,
Mcl'
bourne.
A
private hotel, St. Anthony's,
in
Macleay Street, Potts Point, has been
..sold for
£38,000.
The
threcstorey
brick
building
is
on
land
50ft.
by
101ft.
An application by the Sydney Wool
Selling Brokers' 1 Association to convert
;l building at the corner of King and
Brown Streets in Newcastle at a cost
of £35,000 for use as a wool exchange
has been approved by the
Newcastle; Council Works Committee.
The Empire Theatre, Sydney, is to
be closed for about three and a half
weeks while it is being renovated and
the seating reconstructed. The alter'
ations to jthe auditorium will be completed
in time for the Sydney premiere
of "South Pacific," a musical
play, in the second week in July.
Titanic Steel Fabrications Pty. Ltd.
has applied for land at North Carvington
to build an engineering works.
Newcastle City Council is to ask the
Lands Department for an allocation
of Crown Land at North Carrington
for small heavy industries.
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The Newcastle and Suburban Cooperative
Society Ltd. have invited
tenders for the erection of a large
factory store building at Clyde Street,
Hamilton, with a floor area of 24,000
square feet. Architects are Rodd and
Hay, 45 Hunter Street, Newcastle.
The Shire of Patrick Plains is calling
tenders for the supply and application
of materials for surfacing
and sealing of 10.67 miles of road
pavement.
The erection of
four
prefabricated
buildings
for
the
School
of
Metallurgy
has been decided upon by the
Council
of
the
N.S.W.
University
of Technology.
They
will be
built
on the university
site at
Kensington
adjoining
the
chemical
engineering
buildings.
To demonstrate sound methods of
house construction, new building techniques
and ways to reduce costs, "the
Building Trades 1 Association, an organisation
of sub-contractors, is to
build an exhibition house in a Sydney
suburb. It is proposed to reintroduce
the old axiom
u a fair day's work for
a fair days pay." The president of
the new association is Mr. H. G.
Weller, 28 Glebe Road, Glebe.
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The foundation stone of the Raymond
V. Ford Memorial Hall in
Downing Street, Epping, is to be laid
on the 13th June. The building is
to be of brick and will be in two sections,
one for the Junior School and
the other for the Kindergarten. The
contractors are Armstrong and Swain'
son, and the work is expected to be
com pleted by October.
*Two new water conservation
schemes are to be commenced imnjed'
iately at a cost of £27,500. One is
on Warrell Creek, near Macksville,
and the other , on the Cudgegong
River near Mudgcc.
Closing date for tenders for the
erection of 50 pre-cut houses at Holsworthy
Military Camp has been extended
from the 19th to the 26th
May. Architects are Yuncken,; Freeman
Bros., Griffiths and Simpson Baxter
Cox a.nd Associates, 232 Victoria
Parade, East Melbourne.
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The Shire of Shoalhaven invites
tenders for the reconstruction of three
pipehead weirs i% connection with
the Nower district vater supply. Con-
sulting engineers' are Gutterjdge, Haskins
and Davey, 60 Hunter Street,
Sydney.
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The Shire of Kyogle is calling tenders
for the construction of a half
million gallon reinforced concrete service
reservoir and other work in connection
with the augmentation of the
water supply. Consulting engineer is
John W. Campbell, Box 66, South
Grafton.
Tenders are being invited
for
the
erection
of
St.
John's
Church
or
Cowra.
The St. George War Memorial
Antioch Orthodox Church of N.S.W.,
is to be erected on the corner of Cooper
and Walker Streets, Redfern. Architect
is R. Lindsay Little, 321 Pitt
St., Sydney.
Extensions are to be undertaken to
Dangar House, at the Armidale
School, Armidale. Architects are J.
K. Shirley and Colvin, 7 Angel Place,
Sydney.
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The N.S.W. Presbyterian General
Assembly launched an appeal for
£100,000' for Home Mission and
Church extension work.
£40,000 worth of damage was done
to an Army plant at Leichhardt. It
was caused through sparks from an exhaust
diescl generator—when flames
reached the generators oil tanks.
Messrs. L. H. Rowe 62? Bamber, 154
Concord Road, Strathfield, were the
successful tenderers through the Department
of Works and Housing for
the erection and completion of a steel
framed covered prefabricated store
building at Chullora. The contract
price was £10,193.
Messrs. Ball Brothers, 233 Avoca
Street, Randwick, are the builders, at
the contract price of £16,140, for the
erection of ten prefabricated cottages
at Myambat and two at Muswellbrook.
The tender of Sir Lindsay Parkinson
(Aasia)
Ltd.,
82a
Oxford
Street,
Sydney, has been accepted by the Department
of Works and Housing
for
construction
of
earthworks,
culverts
and
gravel
pavements
for two
miles
of
roadway
between
Canberra
and
Queanbeyan.
The contract price was
£24,194.
Plans have been presented to the
Strathfield Council for a new brick
Milk Depot to be erected in Underwood
Road, Homebush, for Mr. R.
S. Crosby, at a cost of £3000. The
builder is Mr. W. Whare, Crawley
Street, Merrylands.
Brick additions and alterations cost-,
ing £3760 are to be made to the Presbytery
in Tower Street, East. Hills,
for Rev. Father P. Landers.
A new mothercraft centrc is to be
erected at Yarralumla at a cost of
£3369. The builder is A. V. Collings,
Box 42, Post -Office, Kingston, Canberra.
The
Department
of
Works
and
Housing have let a contract to S. R.
Watson,
24 Blaxland
Crescent;
Griffith,
for
the
erection
of
four
brick
veneer
houses at Narrabundah,
Canberra.
The price is £16,890.
They
have also let a contract for six Monocrete
houses
at
Narrabundah
to
F.
A. Somes, 9 Dawes Street, Griffith, at
the contract price of
£18,645.
Contracts have been let to "Presco"
Building Contractors, 16 Ninth Street,
Narrabundah, for the erection of a
brick War Service home at Yarralumla,
for £3,846, and to R. J. Syd^s
Railway Street, Queanbeyan, for a
, brick War Service home at Yarra-
. lumla, Canberra, at a cost of £2900; '
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Woodburn Shire Council expects to
have water from . the Rocky Creek
schema Mailable for Coraki, Evans
Head, Woodburn, and Broadwater
early next year. The council has
raised a loan of £100,000 from the
Superannuation Board to pay for reservoirs
and reticulation pipes.
new hospital to be built at the
A
Hammondville
Homes,
near
Liverpool,
for aged people will be a memorial
to the late Archdeacon Hammond
who
founded
the
Hammondville
Homes.
Lower Hunter Shire Council has
approved an application to build a
brick dwelling by Bloomfield Collieries
Ltd. at Four Mile Creek at a cost
of £7,000.
Merewether R.S.L. sub-branch is
to call a special meeting to discuss
proposals to build a new hall at the
back of the present clubrooms in
Llewellyn Street.
Two acres of parkland at Rozelle,
adjoining Balmain power station, have
been obtained by the N.S.W. Electricity
Commission in exchange for another
site which it will buy and convert
into a children's playground.
The acquired land will be used for a
sub-station at Rozelle.
Natural Gas and Oil Corporation,
which is to wind up the company,
has sold the Balmain Colliery for
£40,000. It will not operate as a colliery
again. The pressure of methane
gas has fallen off during reccnt
months.
The Minister of Education (Mr.
Heffron) has told the Hornsby Shire
President that money is to be placed
on this year's Estimates for the erection
of a Boys' High School at Normanhurst.
Mr. Heffron said this during
his official opening address at the
Hornsby South School.
A cheque of £837 from the Ryde
Police Hospital Fund will assist Ryde
D.S.M. Hospital to provide nurses'
accommodation for a new twenty-bed
hospital ward which is to be opened
shortly.
Applications for building permits
to the Port Stephens Shire Council
include plans for a memorial hall at
Lemon Tree Passage for the R.S.L.
sub-branch.
A new Anglican Church is to be
erected at the corner of Tower Street
and Eddie Avenue. Panaia. Tenders
are invited. Architect is R. Lindsay
Little, 321 Pitt Street, Sydney.
The new school at West Pennant
Hills which"-"will provide four full-sized
classrooms, has been erected by
Heath Pty. Ltd., of Melbourne. Painting
and furnishing is still to be completed.
A subsidy of £2,365 has been approved
for rural electricity to 19 consumers
at Buchanan by J. and A.
Brown and Abermain Sea'ham Collieries
at a cost of £8,341.
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OPPORTUNITIES. , ...
{Continued, from previous. page.
Coreen Shire , Council will receive
a subsidy of £8,03,0 on electricity -extensions
1 to :49 consumers in the'.-central
portion of porecri Shire which
will cost £21,605.
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Manning River. .County Council are;
to have a subsidy of £ll,9p7 from the
Electricity Authority of N.S.W. for
rural electricity extensions to 97 con-,
sumers in the Birds-Kundibahk-Mount
George area which will cost £29,366.|
A subsidy of £4,455 will be ( paid
to Murrumburrah Municipal Council,
for rural electricity extensions to 36
consumers in South Demondrille
Shire at a cost of £17,406.
North West County Council rural;
electricity to 215 consumers (52
farms) will cost £53,876. A subsidy
of £23,705 has been approved. The
area covered is Ashford-Nullamanna-
Poolbrook Line.
Tallaganda Shire Council electric
ity extensions to Captains Flat-Braid- ;
wood will serve 195 consumers (70
farms) and cost £51,536. Approved
subsidy is £24,117.
Cootamundra Municipal Council
will receive a subsidy of £7,782 in respect
of electricity extensions to 63
consumers in the Cootamundra-Brawlin
district, which will cost £20,903
and £632 subsidy for rural electricity
to 5 consumers north of Cootamundra •
which will cost £1,255.
Developments which are being undertaken
by the Maritime Services
Board of N.S.W. in Sydney include
the progressive demolition of 19 jetties
between berths 6 and 34 at Darling
Harbour and their replacement by
seven spacious ietties and a longshore
wharf. A new cargo shed at No. 34
•wharf is - nearly ready. Two jetties
will have two-storey sheds. A large
area of low-lying land on the western
side, of Homebush Bay is being reclaimed.
The provision of nine new
deep-sea berths in Blackwattle and Rozelle
Bays also contemplated.
Tenders have been called for Cessnock's
new town hall in Vincent St.
Architects are Castleden and Sara, 29
Watt Street, Newcastle.

Kearsley Shire Council, Cessnock,
have invited tenders for the erection
of brick lavatories on parks in eleven
towns in the Shire. '
Victoria.
Portland
Harbour
Trust
Commissioners
are
to
call
tenders
for
the
supply, construction and delivery of a
motor tug boat, 35 feet in length, 72
l\.p. diesel
engined.
Under the will of the late Mrs.
Betsy Miller, of Caulfield, the Children's
Hospital will receive about
£25,000. Half of this sum must go
to the hospital's orthopaedic section.
Two beds are also endowed at the
Children's Hospital, one at the Queen
Victoria Hospital and gifts of £1,000
go to each of the children's sections
of the .Blind and the-Deaf and Dumb
institutions. . <'
The new spur line, nearly complete
ed, Moe to Yallourn, which
branches
from-the main Gippsland railway line
at Moe, will cost £300,000.
It is the
only line in Victoria that has no level
crossings.
.Overpasses eliminate . intersecting
roads.
Migli
grade
brown i coal
deposits
h^ve beep found rjear Mpe.
S.E.C:
engineers estimate ttiat nearly
16,Q00

million t$ns pf brown,cpal ar^iavail'
able f in $he area.. • It will be used "for
. future ©pen,.cut mining and briquette
production. • :
The uncompleted block of flats at
the corner of Orfong and Toorak Rds.
Toofak, has been sold privately to a
builder- for £20,000.
The Minister of Education has said
that Ringwood is to have a new high
school and Fern Tree 'Gully a technical
school. The Ringwood school
will accommodate 650 pupils and probably
be built next year.
An £18,000 day nursery is planned
to occupy a site on the north bank
of the Yarra, 100 ; yaids east of
Princes Bridgfe. •
Alexandra College, H a m i 11 o n,
founded in 1878, the second oldest
girls' college with an enrolment of
186, has been offered to the Presby-i
terian Church of Victoria. It is valued
at £50,000. The church will have
to purchase two annexes and interior
equipment.
A team of engineers has been
working for three years on a plan to
amplify Melbourne's sewerage system.
The plan provides for sewerage north
of the Yarra to be taken to Werribee.
A huge intercepting sewer will take
sewage in the south-east section of
Melbourne down by Dromana and into
the ocean near Cape Schnack. Detailed
surveys of the scheme will cost
£15,000. The sewerage scheme may
cost £28,000,000 and take from 8 to
10 years to complete.
Gay Rotary Sprinklers Pty. Ltd. has
obtained permission to call up additional
paid-up . capital to £16,000,
which will be used to finance the
company's further development.
Work has begun on the £7,000 Sea
Cadet Memorial in Albert Park. The
contractors are John Holland and
Sons and 'the Standard Steel Co. The
memorial is expected to be completed
by the end of Tune.
Rockmans Showrooms Ltd., frock
shop proprietors, now have 58
branches. A new branch has been
opened in Melbourne and another is
planned for Yallourn.
The' Co-operative Farmers' Milk Co.
Ltd. are inviting tenders for the erection
of a pasteurising factory at Bentleigh.
Architects
are A.
K.
Lines,
MacFarlane and Marshall,
372
Flind<
ers Street, Melbourne.
A new brick veneer t and concrete
pre-school and infant welfare centre
is to be erected . in Splatt Street,
Swan Hill. The architect is Horace
I. Tribe, 381 Latrobe Street, Melbourne.
New brick bank premises are to be
built
in
Bell
Street,
West
Coburg,
for the National Bank of Australasia
Limited.
Architects are Meldrum and
Noad,
83-89
William
Street,
Melbourne,
C.l.
Tenders are now invited for the
erection of a steel and reinforced concrete
hotel building comprising subbasement,
basement, and ground . to
seventh floors for Town Hall Hotel,
Melbourne Pty. Ltd., at 67-73 Swanston
Street, Melbourne. Architects
are Office of Best Overend, 25-27
Rathdown Street, Carlton.
A composite steel and concrete
bridge is . to be erected across the
Bass River at Almurta. The bridge
will have Aree 50ft. .x 12ft. spans.
The ;local authority, is the Country
Roads Board, Shire of. Bass< and their
offices are at Dalyston.
.-" Architect Gordon ], f£uthetland, of
54 : (New ;Street, Brighton, • invites tend'
f erg /for the. erection .of- a new suppei;
,r,Gom. to - the .shir,e .offices at -Yarnf
^pnga and; also for the building of a
.,ne;w Presbyterian Sunday. (School at
.YTarrawon ga.- ,
•A .composite and. reinforced con-

crete bridge consisting of two 30ft.
precast reinforced concrete beam spans
and one 60ft. composite girder span,
:a total length of 120 .feet with a
width of 24 feet between roadway
kerbs and a 6ft. footway, over the
Jackson's Creek at Gisborne on the
Calder Highway, is to be erected for
'the Gisborne Shire Council.
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Messrs.
Leopold
and Dunstan,
27
Rpyal Parade, Caulfield, are the builders
of a timber-framed building, conversion
and
repairs,
etc.,
to
other
buildings at Healsville.
The
cost is
£16,354.
A n£w two-storey brick and concrete
building to form an extension
to the film storage unit at the R.A.
A.F. Station at Laverton is to be
built by Rushford and Walsh, 91
Watton Street, Werribee. at a cost of
£24,775/9/9.
The construction of two main hangars.
at Avalon; Victoria, which will
house the Canberra; let bombers is
nearing 'completion.:!
The Avalon air strip is 7,500 ft.
long by 150 ft. wide—one of the
longest in Australia.
Owens, of Warrnambool Ltd., who
make windmills, tanks, troughs and
fertiliser spreaders for farmers, are to
open a new mechanised foundry on a
three-and-a-half-acre site this year.
A five-storey nurses' home which
will cost £131,000, is due to be completed
at Warrnambool in about three
months. The home will overlook the
Warrnambool and District Base Hospital.
Warrnambool Technical School has
an expansion programme which will
cost £200,000. Ten acres of Albert
Park have been set aside for education
purposes and a special school,
to include both high school and junior
technical school is proposed.
The building of a new college in
Warrnambool to accommodate 400
students is to begin this month and
will cost £60,000.
Bradford and Kendall, steel founders
of Sydney, are to build a new
foundry at Wodonga..
Fetter Mills Ltd. is to borrow
£50,000 on mortgage. The money is
to be used for business expansion.
The laying of a 15-inch water supply
main
in
Mitcham
Road,
Vermonth,
5,400
lineal
feet,
will
cost
£16,900.
A fire has caused damage estimated
at £6,000 to the factory premises of
A.B.C. Engineering Co. in Bay Road,
Sandringham.
A suitable site for a high school
is being, sought at Sunshine.
Extensions to the factory premises
of Pilkington Bros. (Aust.) Ltd. are
to be undertaken by P. I. Hatwell &
Sons at North Geelong.
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A new R.C. school which will cost
£20,000, is planned for North Shore,
Geelong.
The Heatherton (Moorabbin Centrain—McKay
Street diversion drain,
is estimated to cost £15,000.
Footscray City Council is to borrow
£28,900 for private street construction.
Barrabool Shire Council is to seek
funds totalling £39,550 which will be
in the form of road grants.
Kerang Shire Council will apply
for £66,350 for the maintenance of
120 miles of main roads.
Coburg City Council has applied to
the Commonwealth Bank for an advance
of £135,700 for private street
construction.
An Infant Welfare Centre building
is to be. erected at Orbost. Tenders
have been called!*

J. R. and G. Hooper, of Bell Street,
Preston Eafet, are to build a brick
hall with adjoining room at King Ct.,
Ivanhoe East, for the Ivanhoe East
Methodist Trustees.
Bannockburn Shire Council is to
apply for X27-,000 for road works
and maintenance.
Wimmera Shire may raise a loan of
£7,000 for various works during 1953/
54.
The acquisition of properties in
Swift Street, Albury, for the proposed
civic square has made it necessary for
a loan of £32,470 to be arranged by
the Albury City Council.
E. H. L. Burgess Pty. Ltd. is to
erect a brick factory at 70-78 Lang'
ridge Street, Collingwood.
Hansen and Yuncken are to build
brick extensions to the Sacred Heart
Hospital, Moreland. Road, Coburg, for
the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred
Heart.
A. R. P. Crow fc? Sons Pty. Ltd., of
Berry Street, Yarraville, are to builjd
a brick, steel and timber showroom
at the corner of Williamstown Road
and Thomas Street, Footscray, for V/.
H. and S. Massey Pty. Ltd.
Three brick veneer residences are
to be built on lots 18, 21 and 22
Carolyn Street, Hampton, by Waters
and Ennis, of Melbourne.
A new 10,000 square feet factory
is to be built for the Fletcher Chemical
Co. (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., at Somerville
Road, Brooklyn. The company
manufactures water softening and filtration
equipment.
Melbourne University is to call
tenders for the first part of the engineering
extensions which will provide
a block for the use of both the Department
of Mining and of Metallurgy
and for an Electronics Laboratory.
The building will cost £100,000. Funis
for the General Library not yet being
sufficient (it will cost £440,000),
a "functional unit" is being planned
at a cost of £200,000.
A freehold property has been
bought by Lawson and Carrington
Ltd., Melbourne retailers, which is situated
in Main Street, Croydon. Its
conversion to a modern drapery store
is to commence at once. Another
business at Fitzroy has been modernised
and wijl open soon.
Queensland.
Livingstone
Shire
in
Central
Queensland has been granted a £6,000
subsidy,
towards
the
cost
of
a
£167,000
water
supply
scheme
for
Yeppoon.
A subsidy of £2,000 has been given
to Pioneer Shire towards the cost of
the outwards main extensions at North
Mackay.
Redcliffe Town Council is to receive
£7,000 subsidy towards part of
the cost of the new 2,000,000 gallon
concrete reservoir.
Bundaberg City Council is authorised
to borrow £4,000 for water supply
extensions and new pumps.
Bowen Town Council may borrow
£3,920 towards the cost of water supply
extensions and new pumps..
Additional classrooms to Cooper's
Plains State School will cost £4,813.
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Additional accommodation for domestic
science at the Cavendish Road
State High and Intermediate School
will cost £6,873.
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Improvements are also to be carried
out at Wallangarra, Bundamba. and
Kedron State Schools and Mackay
High School which- will involve the
expenditure of £7,290.

The foundation stone of the' new
ChurcK of St. John at Hendra has
been laid by the Brisbane Anglican
Coadjutor Bishop. The church will
_be of brick and cost over £6,000.
A new school is to be built on the
New Farm site for city and country
spastic children.
A sum of £100,000
is the target set by the Queensland
Spastic Children's Appeal Committee
to enable them to build and equip a
new
centre
at
Elyston
Road,
New
Farm.
Tenders are invited by the Chinchilla
Co-operative Dairy Association
Ltd., Chinchilla, for the erection of a
concrete reinforced water tank and
hardwood superstructure water cooling
tower suitable for a vacreator cream
pasteurising unit, and also for a new
concrete floor in the manufacturing
section of company's works.
Over £1,000,000 has already been
expended on the cost of work done
to the South Brisbane £4,000,000 Auxiliary
Hospital. The Hospital Board
hopes to have the first Acute Wing
and the central tower built by the
middle of next year.
The
present
expansion
policy
of
Woolworths
(Queensland)
Ltd.
includes
extensions additions and renovations
to their bulk store in
Melbourne
St., Sth. Brisbane. This work is
nearly completed.
The contractors are
W. Cunningham".
The same firm of
contractors
have undertaken
the
reconstruction
of the store in George
Street while G. and H. Heave^i are
doing the alterations to premises at
Stone's Corner.
A branch store at
Toowoomba,
in
Ruthven
Street,
is
being built by W. Cunningham and
premises at Town$ville have been remodelled.
A new factory is being constructed
at Gympie for Nestles Ltd.
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Jondaryan Shire Council is to borrow
£10,000 for the water supply
scheme for Oakey.
Kingaroy Shire Council will borrow
£5,000 for the Kingaroy water supply
augmentation scheme.
Maroochy Shire is to borrow £5,000
to cover the planning and investigations
for the North Coast Towns water
supply.
Moreton Shire will borrow £4993
for road and bridge works.
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A loan of £5,000 is to be raised
for the augmentation of the town
water supply by Charleville Town
Council.
Tenders have been invited for the
construction of a block of seven flats
at Noosa Beach, via Tenwantin. Architects
are Prangley and Crofts, Albert
House, Albert St., Brisbane.
A new brick hall is to be built at
the Brisbane Synagogue. Architects
are D. B. Goodsir and H. J. Carlyle,
Swann Road, St. Lucia.
Hughenden Town Council has been
granted £6,157 towards the cost of
installation of additional plant at the
power house.
South Australia.
South Australian Brewing Co. Ltd.
hopes to begin work soon on the new
hotel at Finsbury. In addition to expansions
at the Southwark brewery it
is expected that a new cellar block
at the West End brewery will be in
use by the end of this year.
The public works programme of the
S.A. Government for next financial
-year will cost £40,000,000 if funds are
available. Estimates of loan works in'
• elude electricity extensions for Port
Augusta, Osborne and Port Lincoln
—£12,000,000; bus£s arid improvements
for the Municipal Tramways
Trust—£600,000; housing—£6,500,'
000; afforestation and a sawmill at

Mount
Gambier—£1,400,000;
railways—£4,500,000;
new wharfs, harbors,
coal-handling plant—£2,000,000;
water and sewers, the
Mannum-Adelaide
pipeline, West Coa6t and other
schemes—£7,000,000;
schools
and
hospitals, £2,500,000.
A new lifesaving centre for Henley
Surf Lifesaving Club is planned
at a cost of £9,000. A modern building
will consist of a ground and mezzanine
floor and a 36ft. lookout tower.
There will also be a women's
social room, a first-aid room and a sun
deck.
The war memorial grandstand and
dressing shed which is to be built at
King's College beside the college oval
is to have a gymnasium below the
grandstand seats. The memorial fund
has reached £5,000.
• An air-conditioned community store
is being erected at Woomera Village.
It will include a baker's shop, retail
and bulk stores and a section for drapery.
;
A new ballroom attached to the
present hall has been suggested by
Burnside Council. Money would be
raised by loan. The continued de-
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mand for the hic£V of hall facilities
would, soon pay off the loan and sub^
sequent profits would be used tolas'
si si in road maintenance. ,
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A tender has been accepted for the
erection of the new primary school
at Reidy Park, but-it i6 realised that
this school will not accommodate the
increased number of children and the
Mount Gambier Town Council has
decided to press for an early start
on Gambier East School.
Approval has been, given for the
construction of a new Q.M.F. train'
ing centre at Port Lincoln. The
building will be erected on the out'
skirts of the town and will consist
of a large brick hall with office and
storeroom.
Hotel Burleigh, at the corner of
Torrens Road and Carlton Crescent,
Cheltenham, is to be started in the
near future. The twestorey building
will have 32 bedrooms and cost
£90,000.
South Australian Railways Commissioner's
officc invites tenders for the
supply and delivery at Islington workshops
of ten 650-750 h.p. diesel elcc
trie shunt locomotives in complete
working order.
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Tenders are invited for alterations
and additions to the Wellington Ho'
teI,V Wellington Square, North Adelaide.
Architects are Hall 6«? Rutt,
Royal Insurance Building, 13 Grerv
fell Street, Adelaide.
The City of Adelaide requires tenders
for the following work: Repairing
and 'painting the Victoria Bridge over
the River Torrens at Adelaide; painting
and renovating Town Hall light
courts and Eagle, Gladstone and
Queen's Chambers.
A 15'bed dormitory wing and recreation
hall is to be erected at Magill
for the Methodist Children's Home.
Tenders have been invited by the architect,
Gordon C. Brown, 33 Pirie
Street, Adelaide.
A store and amepitjes buildings is
to be built at Gepps Cross for the
Metropolitan and Export Abattoirs
Board. The architects are Carodoc
Ashton, Fisher, Woodhead & Beaumont
Smith, Savings Bank Building,
King William Street, Adelaide.
The contract for the erection of
St. Martin's Church at Whyalla at a
cost of over £8,000 has been let to
F. Pricker Ltd.
An area of 1L acres with an adjacent
2-acre reserve has been acquired
by the Port Lincoln Town Council
to provide for future needs of the
sporting public. Expansion of sporting
organisations has made it necessary
to have a second oval.
The proposed 3 2-acre salt water
lake at Patawalonga is the main feature
in Glenelg's plans for development
and improving the entrance to
the town from the north. The lake
will not only beautify but will open
up a new residential area. that may
become a most imposing outer suburb,
The reclamation scheme will
cost £178,000 and will provide a haven
for small craft while nine acrcs
will be added to Wigley Reserve. Sites
west of the lake should be ideal for
homes as they will face the sea and
the lake. A marine drive, 36ft. wide,
will flank the foreshore west of the
lake and form'an impressive entrance
to Glcnelg. Plans arc also being considered
for a hotel on Anzac High'
way:-on the site now occupied, by the
Holdfast Bay Bowling Club. Four
- modern pressing rooms .aqd two beach
shelters 'will be erected on Glenelg's
beach frontage at a cost of about
£10,000. -

. Approval has been giv^p for a new
school for settlers' children: in the
Mount Bruce area, north'' of Furner.
A new showroom arid" store arc to
be built for British Insulated Calenders
Cables
(Aust.)
Ltd., and alterations
undertaken to the premises at
252
Flinders Street, Adelaide.
The
architects
are
F.
Kenneth
Milne,
Dawkins. Boehmc & Ellis,
22
Greiv
fell Street, Adelaide.
Western Australia.
Commonwealth financial assistance
will be required to repair the jetty at
Onslow if atomic tests are to be held
at the Monte Bello islands this year.
The jetty was damaged by the cyclone
last March and lost six of its
bays. The normal cost of repair work
will be £70,000 but if the work has
to be done in a hurry it will cost
much more. Much of the maintenance
equipment was also destroyed.
The head of the jetty was driven six
• miles down the coast by heavy seas.
' '"The'first group <of. 12 houses have
been comple!t6<J s at^ the Medina town
site for Australiari-^Petroleum Refinery
Ltd. These houses will remain under
ownership of the State Housing Commission
and be leased to the oil company.
The State Government has
agreed to build 1,000 houses for the
employees of the oil company in the
next three years.
Nungarin Road Board proposes to
borrow £5,000 for the construction
and bitumen sealing of roads within
the district.
Hoskins Engineering and Foundry
Ltd. is constructing equipment worth
about £70,000 for the oil refinery at
Kwinana. A special slipway is being
built at Woodmans Point on which
a large pontoon will be assembled.
The firm is also building six specially
designed flat-top railway waggons
which will be used to carry long steel
piles down to the temporary jetty head
at Kwinana.
Woolworths
(W.A.)
Ltd.
have
bought
a two-storey double
fronted
brick building, known as ScarfFs Furniture
House,
in
central
Fitzgerald
Street, Northam,
for an
undisclosed
figure.
Corigan Road Board is to borrow
£5,000 to buy a loader and a grader.
The City of Freniantle proposes to
borrow £8,500 for the erection of the
Gibson Park Change Rooms, £2,800
for a Ante-Natal Clinic and £485 for
alterations to the facade of the library
buildings.
The new slipway, boatshed and engineering
workshop now being constructed
at Fremantle for fishing boats
will cost £7,500. The slip will be
able to take five craft at a time.
Marlborough House, well known
Perth private hotel, has been sold to
Mr. A. Silverton, of National Fisheries,
West Perth; for £35,000.
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The Y.M.C.A. will launch an appeal
to raise £30,000 in W.A. The
money is neede,d for a'war memorial
youth centre, £8,000; a war memorial
youth camp, £8,000; boys' general
extension work, £7,000; war memorial
college for leadership training and
other national work, £7,000.
The Claremont Municipal Council
has suggested to the Railway Department
that the Ashton Avenue bridge
at Claremont should be reconstructed.
The work proposed would involve a
steel substructure and a reinforced concrete
deck. The bridge provides access
to the eastern entrance to the
showgrounds at Claremont.
The new £225,000 terra cotta roofing
tile factory of H. L. Brisbane and
Wunderlich Ltd. has been opened by
the W.A. Premier (Mr. Hawke). The
factory at Caversham will produce
.3,000,000 tiles a year. It has eight
kilns and stacks and will use a unique
system of dryers which utilises the
waste heat from the kilns.

Barclay and Sharland Pty. Ltd. have
invited tenders for alterations and ad'
ditions to their printing premises at
999 Hay Street, Perth. Architects
are Hobbs, Winning and Leighton,
104 St. George s Terrace, Perth.
Tenders have been invited for alter'
ations and additions to toilet acconv
modation of. the Globe Hotel, Wei'
Jington Street, Perth. Architects are
Ochiltree, Hargrave and Moran, Mc
Nell Chambers, 9 Barrack Street,
Perth.
A new brick hall with asbestos
roof is proposed for the Northam Sub'
branch R.S.L. at Fitzgerald Street,
Northam. Architects are W. G. Bennett
and Associates, A.M.P. Chamb'
ers, Perth.
Bayswater Road Board proposes to
borrow £20,000 for the purpose of
effecting repairs and renovations to the
Bayswater Town Hall, part payment of
the cost of erection of a caretaker's
dwelling at the Board's new depot,
construction of roads and footpaths,
the purchase of a grader.
A brick recreation and training
;oom is to be erected adjoining the
Fire Station at Midland Junction. Architects
are Duncan, Stephen and
Mercer, McNeil Chambers, 9 Barrack
Street, Perth.
Wyalkatcham Road Board is to bor'
row £5,000 for the reconstruction and
bituminising of streets.
Nestles building in Saint George's
Terrace, Perth, has been bought by
the Duke of Westminster, one of the
biggest property owners in London,

for the sum of £71,000.
When construction of the new floor
at the Metropolitan Markets in Perth
is completed the extra trading space
will be 126 squares. Modern prefab'
ricated metal roof spans are being
inserted in place of the heavy timbers
used in the old market.

After a tour of the Pilbara mining
district Mr. C. W. D. Barker, M.L.C.,
says that water shortage is hitting the
North West mines.
Mining around
Port Hedland is very active.
One
company has a permit to ship 5,000
tons
of
manganese
to
the
United
States. This is being mined at Ragged
Hills.
Tantalite and beryl are also
being mined and brought into Port
Hedland.
A
rare metal, columbite,
used for hardening steel in jet en'
gines, is coming from Pippingarra.
It
is worth £2,000 a ton landed at Frc
mantle.
Tin is also produced exten'
sively.
Coongan is a region where a
drive is planned.
Copper and asbestos
mining are flourishing around the
coastal centre of Roebourne.
Tasmania.
St. Leonards Council is seeking
finance of £60,000 to purchase pipes
for the proposed water scheme.
A factory is to be built in Laun'
ceston for Bergers Paints Pty. Ltd.
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A new Sunday School hall is to be
opened at St. Barnabas" Church,
Somerset, in the parish pf Cooee.
A sawmill was destroyed by fire at
Moogara in the Derwent Valley. Damage
estimated at £6,000 was suffered
by the Hobart
firm
of Chesterman
and Co.
C. F. Broom, of Longford, have
had their tender of £18,520 accepted
for the construction of .a 15'inch
trunk main to improve water supply
to Ravenswood, Mowbray and Invermay,
by the Launceston City Council.
Murcx (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. have
established an extensive electrode

: manufacturing plant at Derwent Park,
Hobart. Plans are in hand to produce
all types of welding plant.
New Zealand.
Work has commenced on the site of
the new wharf at Mount Maunganui,
which will be the chicf item in the
port development schemc, and measure
1200 feet in length.
The State Hydro-electric Department,
Wellington, has invited tenders
for the design, manufacture, supply
and delivery of a 30-ton electric travelling
gantry cranc.
Northern Territory.
A tender of £51,000 has been accepted
for the conversion of the Darwin
Post Office,, which was wrecked
by Japanese bombs, into the Northern
Territory Legislative Council
building. The new building will be
of topical design in brick and concrete
and will have extensive louvring. The
main chamber will be about 53 feet
by 40 feet and have public and press
galleries with a press room.
The building plans are now complete
for the Alice Springs Kindergarten.
Specifications arc being prepared.
The kindergarten will be
named after Nathalie Gorey, one of
the founders. The Building Fund wa?
increased by £2,483 in 1952, mainly
as the result of the N.T. Lottery.
New Guinea.
A mill with 113,00(3 square feet of
floor space is nearing completion at
Bulolo and it is expected that high
grade plywood will be in production
early next year. Bulolo Gold Dredging
Ltd. expects to use 10 million
super feet of logs in the first year.
Gold won by the company during the
past year is expected to exceed 100,000
fine oz;., worth £1,500,000. The population
of Bulolo will be more than 450
whites and 1,400 natives by the time
the plywood mill comes into operation.
There are schools, recreation
centres, golf course and a swimming
pool for employees.
Korea.
The United Nations Korean Reconstruction
Agency has made enquiries
as to the likelihood of Australian
engineering and construction firms undertaking
work in Korea. The agency
wants to establish a panel of names
of those firms who would be available.
Advice on the availability of cement,
timber, prefabricated buildings and
other materials is also sought. The
work is expected to cost about
£35,000,000. Interested builders
should forward their names through
the Master Builders' Association and
engineering firms and suppliers of materials
should apply to the Acting-Director
of Works in Western Australia
(Mr. O. A. Beattie) at the G.P.O
Perth.
India.
The Directorate General of Supplies
and Disposals invites tenders for
supplying four river tugs, twin screw
steam driven shallow draught.

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