TOP HAMPER GOING

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 96, 17 January 1935, Page 8

TOP HAMPER GOING

Buildings in Warehouse Area Quite a reasonable amount of activity in the direction of relieving big city buildings of useless and heavy top hamper is noticeable in the warehouse section of the city between Victoria Street and Jervois Quay. Here no fewer than four buildings are being deprived of their parapets, which serve no purpose other than ornamental, and yet increase the weight of these buildings by hundreds of tons where it is most harmful during any disturbances of the earth. One of the biggest jobs is that large four-storied warehouse block for so many years in the occupation of Briscoe and Co., on the corner of Victoria and Harris Streets. This building belongs to the City Corporation. At the other end of Harris Street, Messrs. Alexander Cowan and Sons Ltd. are completing the work commenced over two years ago, when the parapet along the Harris Street fronttage was eliminated. Now the Jervois Quay parapet has been demolished in keeping with the policy of reducing all top hamper. Messrs. Ross and Glendining, on the corner of Victoria and Willeston Streets, have already reduced the parapet of their warehouse to a minimum, and just across the way in Victoria Street Kodak (N.Z.) Ltd. have deprived their tall ornate building of its heavy parapet.

There are still a number of buildings in this neighbourhood with huge parapets which serve no utilitarian purpose.