Short-Sighted Architects
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From Our Own Correspondent.
SUVA, June 25.
THE necessary lands at Naiqaqi have been acquired upon which are to be erected the new government offices in Suva. Naiqaqi means literally “the mill” and is the locality where was erected in 1871 the first sugar mill in Fiji by Messrs.
Brewer and Joske.
It was hoped that competitive designs would be called for in Australia and New Zealand from leading architects, but it is understood that the respective architects’ institutes demanded the right to award the prizes to the designs they themselves considered to be the best. Academically such designs might have been the more merit-worthy, but the client’s wishes were to take second place. Hence, a govern ment architect probably will be appointed, and Australian and New Zealand archi tects will lose a large, fat plum.
Mr. P. H. Edmunds, who has been for 25 years the manager on Easter Island for the English syndicate which holds the ranching concession from the Chilian Government, left Tahiti recently for a short holiday in England. On his return to French Oceania, Mr. Edmunds will take up residence in the Paea district of Tahiti.