A NEW WAREHOUSE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 80, 28 December 1917, Page 5

A NEW WAREHOUSE

. FOR WHOLESALE TRADE j SOLID BRICK BLOCK IN THE CENTRE OF WELLINGTON, '. Tlmugh the W.F.C.A. has an exto sivo wholesale department at headqua ters in Masterton, it has heon foui

■'. necessary to extend the wholesa premises in Wellington from the o' store at the corner of Waring Taylj Street and Lampton Quay (for so roai years occupied by the United Fan ers . Co-op. Association) £o a liei much larger, and more modei building on tho corner of Featherstc 'arid Waring Taylor Streets, now iii tt filial,stages of completion. Factors i this expansion' are the ever-increasin growth of tho business up the Man: watu line and the acquisition of bus iioss.wliish has followed the absor tion of Abraham and Williams's In stock business throughout the Wain rapa , and-Forty-mile. Bush, which hi 'been the means -of' establishing tr W.F.O.A. firmly, at Daniievirke, Pahii tua,"aii(l other, important centres i the ever-extending , scope of the assi ciation's .activities. The' f farmers, sti tibn-holders, and smaller settlers, a .beginning to' realise the advantage to be obtained from;co-operation in tl: .truest sense, of. tho word. ; : ::■ • The new warehouse has a' froiitaj to Featlierston Street.of 40ft.,.and 01 to. Waring Taylor Street of 102 ft;- ar here it is intended 1 to sfyck in bulk 8 the requisites of tho up-to-date agi culturist and pastoralist of to-day; reliable seed of all kinds, manure farm and garden implements, anim foods, and all the provisions that fanner —in a large or small way—mil .stock..' The building fronts FeatliorsU Street, and on that frontage are tl ,'public offices, the offices of the .ma: tiger and staff, wool and shipping mat agors-office, strongroom, etc.: At tl rear on the ground floor' is the bu grain and seed store,. which is ,co| iiected with the floor above by an ele •trie lift for the speedy handling' of a goods. The floor above will be used ! a provision warehouse and packiii room, for whiob it ed, being splendidly lighted, by,' lar{ windows that have an , umiiterrnptj northern light for the full length' i the building along Waring .Taylc Street. . „ .• ■ : -\ The new warehouse was Sfessrs. Penty and Lawrence, and bm by Mr.' J.' L. M'Millan.