Extra splash at Central
Since Central TAFE took up its new moniker, Central Institute of Technology, late last year, no effort has been spared to give it some extra razzamatazz.
But the addition of what seems to be an aquatic entertainment facility at the institute’s new engineering building going up in Aberdeen Street had The Note scratching its head.
Call us old fashioned, but we would have thought that most engineers would recognise that ramming a pool hard up against the ceiling might create a few access problems.
A call to the good folk at Central soon put the matter to rights.
Apparently, it’s not a swimming pool at all but an “art installation”.
“It’s an attention grabber – it’s about getting people talking,” site services officer Dave Gaff told The Note.
“Ten years from now, if you say the building in Northbridge with the swimming pool on the roof, everyone will know what you are talking about. You won’t need an address.”
A bit like the Red Castle motel in Rivervale perhaps.
Kingstream saga enters home straight
Good news may be on the horizon for long suffering creditors of failed Mid West steel wannabe Kingstream Steel, with a ruling on an action by administrator Bryan Hughes against gold miner St Barbara Mines said to be imminent.
The matter relates to mining lease applications held by St Barbara which Kingstream reckoned should have been handed over under an option it exercised in 1999.
Unfortunately, St Barbara withdrew the applications in 2001. The ground is now part of the $1 billion Jack Hills mine development.
Litigation funder IMF expects a court win to add $5.5 million to its bottom line, so it seems a successful outcome will be at the bottom end of the $13 million to the $980 million valuation put on the leases by administrators before the trial.