A SPLENDID BUILDING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 427, 9 February 1909, Page 8

A SPLENDID BUILDING.

THE NEW PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE: TO COST £40,000.

,'■■■•' The,new Public Trust Office, at.the.'corher of. Lambton :; Quay and Stout Street, ' is in many-respects the most striking, building: in the :city from, an : architectural point' of -.view. The; and hoarding.has now Wen removed, and tho:buil.ding.has'bbeji admired by all passers-by who have an, eye, fbj fine, architecture: and a ; handsome build-' ing,.' There "is ".a good-deal of internal iwork. still ".to", be done, but it- is. anticipated that .will be. ready for:the formal open;ing.on''May.l.'The"oponing ceremony will be. 'performed by the Prinie; Minister, and tho Hon.-A.' T. Ngata, :.Ministbr:in chArge of the Public: Trust Office. - ". •■''.V. .-:'- i ■•'.-': j'. -The. will. .designe'd bjv MrV.'J."'.Campbell', Government Architect.-:■■.Tho ■ contractors :are''Messrs!':A. ;ah_d: J.'/AVilson. : T^ho,material: of- which' :tlje edifi.cfl ; ;is.' r oluc(ly constructed .is ; Tonga Bay. granite: ■;- Tonga Bay, it''mayD'o explained;', is :situa"ted.'■'"between Nolvon and ' Collingwoo'd. -

The granite is a in colour tliaiiothor grey'granites. ,Although .it is.'ex-, pected .that it •'.will 'tdfle it will not discolour jn.the-sarae.way.as Oamaru and other'limestones:'■■' '■'"''':..: ; '' ' : ' :; . ;, ■;■■ • The new iPublic.'Trust, Office, , ., is;.'designed _.in the, English classical renaissance: style,.is fiyo : stories , in height,' with basement. Tniß'is'tlic first large pufilic'buiUlihg. erected in ; tliG,-Dominion .with a', skeleton :■ riveted .steel.frame.for.the resisting earthquakes. '-;.; The' Public Trust .Office'Utaff . will occupy.the'.'■ground floor,- first floor} ■ and basement. ; The -upper.':floors have already been let..io , .the Health D.epartinent^the.Eoads'Departmenti and the Electoral i Department. -' f; , "It'is:iintended; in' course.-'df."time,■ to 'devote the- basement to safe.denpsit lockers, in ■which: any.person', by. pa.ving"a','small:feo.anV riu'allyi'.cari deposit his" " v the ■key.-of-the locker himself: The styong-room issaid to.be the. largest '■.ih-.thtf Dominion;':■ ■; Our Photograph is;by .\V."F. Tibbutt.. "