Crown Location staff (from left) John Ramage, Fergus McRae,
A. J. Mills (with back to camera) and Darrell Douglas
manhandle a large commercial oven from the Otago
Polytechnic's Tennyson St campus on to a truck, ready for
its journey to the main campus in Forth St. Photo by Peter
McIntosh.
Crockery, cutlery, ovens, fridges - everything including
the kitchen sink is on the move from Otago Polytechnic's
Tennyson St buildings to new hospitality school facilities at
the main campus in North Dunedin.
The task, which began on Monday, will take contractors about
a week. Yesterday, they began moving the bulky equipment,
including eight large refrigerators, several commercial ovens
and 15 stoves.
"We're taking virtually everything that is not screwed down,"
cookery programme manager Tony Heptinstall said yesterday.
A new training restaurant, two training kitchens and a
production kitchen are being built at the rear of the Student
Centre in Harbour Tce. The new kitchens had been designed to
take the best of the gear from the old kitchens, Mr
Heptinstall said. The stoves, which were only three or four
years old and worth $5000 apiece, were too good to discard.
Among the more unusual items waiting to be shifted are a
100-litre capacity double boiler, a pastry rolling machine, a
butcher's block and a bandsaw.
Hospitality programme manager Dion Hyde said he hoped
contractors would be able to move the door off a very old and
heavy steel safe which had been used to secure the takings
from the training restaurant.
"It is historic. We should keep it if we can, [although] I'm
not sure what we will do with it yet."
Work on the $4.1 million extension to the Student Centre
began in November and is expected to be finished by July 20,
when the second teaching semester begins.
About 120 students a year will use the new facilities for
their full-time cookery, barista and cafe training, while
about another 1000 will pass through on short courses, such
as food handling and coffee-making.
The campus had been at Tennyson St for more than 40 years.
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