What must be easily the most substantial wooden building for its size in New Zealand is now in use as a Sunday school halt‘in Obtrn, Stewart Island. The Presbyterian congregation there needed such a hall and lately was able to obtain a building 50ft- long and 20ft. wide which had been erected by rr Norwegian whaling company at its base in Paterson's Inlet. The structure was removed and re-erected near the church at a cost of £4OO. It has no frame' except in the roof, and the walls consist of Baltic pine "planks,” Gin. by Sin. in section. The timbers, which are tongued and grooved, lie horizontally and are dovetailed at the corners of the building. Comparatively few nails were used in the construction.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 191, 9 May 1940, Page 7
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124Untitled Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 191, 9 May 1940, Page 7
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