BUILDING RECORD.
USE OF HOLLOW TILES. WOKK OX MAYFAIR FLATS. The progress made with the Mayfair Flats, in Parnell Road, at the top of Parnell Rise, is claimed to have created an Australian and New Zealand record. Four weeks ago to-day the Fletcher Construction Company, Limited, started work on the foundation?, and to-day there is a five-storeyed structure on the site with the roof ready for the tiles. Mr. James Fletclier stated that it had been possible to erect the buildin™ with such rapidity through the tise of hollow tiles in the "floors. Although the use of these tiles in America was an established practice, Mayfair Flats wae the first building: in Auckland in which tile floor construction had been used. He was satisfied that a record had been established. Hollow tiles will also be used for the floors and subdivisions in the new eight-storeyed building to be erected on Porter's old site in High Street.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 5
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156BUILDING RECORD. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 5
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