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E. V. West, Plan for an Orderly Room, Manawatū Mounted Rifles

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Description: The Manawatū Mounted Rifles were formed in 1891 as part of the Wellington Battalion, Mounted Rifle Volunteers. The Manawatū Evening Standard reported on 29 July 1908: "The Manawatu Mounted Rifles' new orderly room was opened this afternoon by his Excellency the Governor [Lord Plunket] in the presence of a number of officers and volunteers. The building, for which the plans were drawn by Trooper E. West, is one that does the corps credit. The site was generously given by Captain-Adjunct Pringle, and practically the whole of the work has been carried out by members of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles." It reported that the facility would be shared with the recently-formed Savage Club and that there were plans to further extend the building. Ernest Vilhelm West was the son of the Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) who established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 1912 father and son formed a partnership, which E. V. West continued after his father's death.