DOMINION’S BIGGEST GASHOLDER

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 42, 13 November 1926, Page 4

DOMINION’S BIGGEST GASHOLDER

The top picture shows the Wellington' Gas Company’s new holder, the erection of (Which was recently completed at Miramar. Speaking at the driving of the last rivet ceremony on August 30, the chairman of the Wellington Gas Company, Mr. Gerald Fitzgerald, mentioned that the first rivet in the blew gasholder was driven on August 17, 1925. The first gasholder had been erected by the company in 1871, and the present holder was tfie seventh that the company had erected. The holder erected in IS7I had a caJpaeity of 15,000 cubic feet, and the new holder's capacity is 2,000,000 cubic feet — oiie hundred and thirty-three times greater. The bottom picture is one of Wellington as it was in the ’eighties, viewed from the vicinitjy of Upper Roxburgh Street, and shows (to the left), one of the Gas Company’s original gasholders. To the left, running from Clyde Quay towards the gasholder, is old Grainger Street, which Was ■ later done away with when the Harbour Board bought up the land in the neighbourhood. Wakefield Street replaced it when the locality was remodelled. The two-story house to the right of the picture was the residence of General. Sir Alfred Robin's family. The vacant lot in the left foreground is the present site of the Clyde Quay School, At the end of the jetty, in the middle distance, is 'the first Wellington Rowing Club's shed, and further around the beach, to the right, is the Star Boating Club's shed, which was 1 afterwards moved to its present: site facing the Tacanaki Street Wharf. In'those daj's the waterfront came right up ns far as the site on the corner of Victoria and Wakefield Streets where the new “Dominion” building is being erected. —Photo of new gasometer by F. G. Barker.