THE CITY'S GROWTH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 6

THE CITY'S GROWTH.

V , A PERIOD OF FORTY YEARS. TWO INTEfIESTING PHOTOGRAPHS. SOME OLD LANDMARKS, Ill^'sWeliifigto^in:^ * ; Whsvtva range .of; memory >is called up by tho panoranuo photographs of tho Empire City < which appoar on this page' What a tribute it.-.constitutes to. all.,:vho Jirwo pitched l ' their ■■■jtontsf.inj this, --thaigeographical, and-commercial ■ centre of iNow > Zealand, and ha\o by their \ i.S^^Sß'Kiiff;VTOa7pdEt.>iiito-] : ii'" r fiiie'inib'dr' city! It as though r.ithor.Time had ~ inada\a ; compact.'with Stho-:fairy Progress about

years of tlie :MbnhF:ft>ok Boys' School). /Just ur front \of> the old school, cau be seen' the first building of : any size to , lie ' erected 'on that part 1 :of-1 the.'reclaimed, land' which mow'forms the. major of the commercial section of tho- .city.',- It -is . Messrs. Kirkcaldlo and: Stnins's.::tw i <)-storied shop on tho 1 corner -.of Panama Stroet and Lambton Quay, demolished (jnly :.a\few:v«-eek's-agoito'niak'e '.wiiy.' for.': a'•'•far. more"' substantial ; structure.- J The lunch, be-: windoived building on" the- reclaimed land elope ,in and near the water-front: if)'still-;sthndififf :at the 'ribfiiei;.of.."Waring 'I'aylor Street ai\d-Lamb-;.ton :of Mr'. ! Joseph Farmers' • Co-oporativo (,'ompanv. Tho -.lino ' between that-buildings iind.lfillsV, foundry," then' .the, extent', of, the . reclamation • northwards.-.':is ' liowV; Waring 'Taylor. Street. v Tlie.' blank iwliito 'wall,:iiiuQngpt tho! .trees .to the' riprhtof :;t}io. ;6rilniiiiar ; :hchbolMs 'the back' wall-of . the' Syna-. :go'gno:'on';Wollington";''.('errdce, ; and'.'.iifca„dirept •Jino. -beyond,' at; the''foot: of.'ihc. •Paiiataa; 1 Steamship Company's - building,, ' the 'Post : and Telegraph: Office, ' and.'.'the'; Queen's Wharf. ,v: v '•,-. " v: ' ; i' . , • ... <. '■ '• 1 .■