MESSRS SARGOOD, SON, AND EWEN’S NEW WAREHOUSE.

Evening Star, Issue 3687, 16 December 1874, Page 2

MESSRS SARGOOD, SON, AND EWEN’S NEW WAREHOUSE.

The new warehouse is to occupy a frontage to High street ot 120 ft, by a depth of 51ft Gin, and to Howling street of 55ft, by an average depth of lOflft. In addition to the 55ft to Howling street, there will be a further 12ft over the end of the right-of-way, which it is designed to make a feature of by a kind of tower enclosing the staircase up to the clothing factory. The building will consist of a basement and three storeys to High street, and a cellar basement, and two stories to Howling street. Each of the floors throughout the building will be oir one level. The High street basement and Dowling street cellar will be 9ft Gin from floor to ceiling, and will accommodate heavy goods of the Manchester department, bonded goods, buck goods, duty paid, an opening room, and a strong room. The High street ground floor will have a handsome entrance in the centre, and it will run through and form the basement to Howling street. It will be used for the Manchester aud clothing departments, the firm’s private and general offices, entering aud packing rooms, and a travellers’ room, and will have a height of 14ft. Hescending by a handsome staircase to the first floor of High street will be found the silks, dress fabrics, mantles) shawls, ribbons, and lace goods, anil through an arched opening towards Howling street the tweeds, broadcloths, and hats ; passing through which the boots department will be reached, forming the ground floor of the Dowling street frontage, and nearly on the level of the street. This floor will be 13ft Gin from floor to ceiling. Returning again to the High street first floor by a second staircase to match the lower oue the second floor of the High street frontage will be reached. This will be of a height of 12° ft Gin, and will accommodate hosiery, haberdashery, shirts, ties, &c., as well as the fancy goods, and will be fitted up in the newest and most appro\ ed style of modem times. On this floor also the manufacturing milliners will bo located, and this will complete the warehouse accommodation, which will be thoroughly separated from the balance of the floor on *this level, viz.: the first floor of Howling street, which, as before stated, will be used as a clothing factory, and will be reached by the tower staircase from the lower door in Dowling street. The ceiling will here be the same height, 12ft 6m, aud will be lighted from the roof by a new method, already tried in Messrs Sargood’s Melbourne warehouse, and found to answer admirably. There will here be ample room for some 200 workpeople. As Messrs Sargood, Sou aud (Jo., in Melbourne, have already been cqinplimented on their clothing factory, and bieen assured by the inspector of factories that it is far in advance of any other in that city, doubtless the same care will be taken here to secure the health and comfort of the Dunedin employes in this branch of their manufactures, as has most certaiuly been already done with their boot factory. All the different floors will be fitted with lavatories, &c. One central lift will communicate with every part of the building, and in addition there will be subsidiary ones for particular purposes. From the entering room, also from the cashier’s office (which will adjoin, and so be easily accessible to the private office), speaking tubes will be carried to the receiving, sales, and other departments of the warehouse, thus bringing all under one general management; and for the convenience'of the manager of the boot department a connection will be established over the roadway from the boot salesroom to the boot factory, the old First Church.