New Buildings

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 97, 31 January 1885, Page 2

New Buildings

MR. REES* SHOP. With the general advancement which this district has been, and is still making, the building trade has, of course, had its share of the work done, and an account of a few of the-biiildmgß erected during the last few mgnths/may not prove uninteresting to our readers. In -April last, we chronioled t^e burning down of Mr Bees' shop in fntrEms bolton road, and thouglvwe mustrregre^, the loss of property wnieh thatfire#n«» tailed, we have to thank it ffJjgjjPgtiy means of giving ourHpnrn^one^oF^ii prettiest shops •in -the district. From the nature of Mr Bees' occupation-the building is, of coursev a T simpl¥one, floor space and light being 'thVg*e« desiderata. The former he certainly has, as his two shops have an T areai.» over twelve hundred square fetetiO For light, besides; the large shop frpnfci >h« has good windows pn.tih^jnqrt^side^ the building. Behind the .workshop is a large covered and ;endo^i,f pa^ip fitted with racks to contain thetimbjsr required for a coachbuilder's ,^pr.k^j 0 ■'•■ ' - THE STAR OFFICER .'IIOQ TSHJ ' Before Mr Bees' shop was fihifctasd* the new offices of the StA& were b>gtt£. The building at the corner of Hobsdn street, in which tMs journal iandi* the Feilding Guardian had been printed for the past three years; was for. many reasons unsuited for the purpose afjfa : printing and publishing 'office^ andean ' June last the proprietors of itneLSiAfe 1 instructed Messrs-Atkins and dere, of Wanganui. to prepare the pbxnKofJthe • office in which the Feiudikg rSiAn^ now published. It is JnterestinghJi> note the outward signs of the growth 1 of an institution, and when those of our readers who have known Failding [ for the last five years contr^ast^the jjre- [ seni office of the local paper with/ tnose in which it was first started; ;jfre think I they will agree thai we 1 may Be-well ■ satisfied with the progress that we ( have ' made. After passing through! ihVporch | with its inner and outer folding docfre, ■ which forms the entrance to the offices, i we find ourselves in a. well-lighted , publishing room, 16ft : i ' J #4ft, ili S»d ! rather over 12ft high, .fitted-, with, t counter, desk, and other '^eqinsites. [ Leading out of .this room, to. the left, t is the editor's sanctum; f 4Jt'x 1 Oft oin, ' a comfortable and well-UghtedjfOom, ■ with communication by means or a balanced panel in the w^all with the' ' composing and printing office at the , back. The fire places in this-room \ and in that of the coriiposinigl and 1 printing offices—are a little peculiar, the architects having'addplte^'thejSys- . tern of building so strongly advocated » by the famous Count : Boaniord-K^Jte ' peculiarities are the bevelled! sidep^of [ fire-place, and very narrow thgga&or ' entrance to flue, i The A effect of this B construction is great economy of heat, 1 a very small percentage, of that 'geaer- • f ailed escaping up the chimney 1 ' (on* an t ordinary open fire-place it is suppo'&d - that only about 25 per cent, of the aeat f generated comes into the room}) >ttnd 1 reduced chances of the srijoke- refusing . to pass up the; chimney: :Both j publishing and editor's roomef fareI papered with distempered mpers,7«nd 1 the ceilings are treated: in vannarel r manner, the panels beiijgipainted and i borders and mouldings . oileU arid sir- > nished, the effect: being: L*erjfrig«&d. f The printing • office extending across 5 the building at the back ofthefpab- ' lishing and editor's rooms}' isx-27 4fet 1 long by 15 feet wide. T^e^wgUgjAnd ceilings are match-lined, and the light is obtained by a large laAfc^*qstfh* ; roof. Behind the printing room is the > paper store, and this: with the stable ; and other outbuildings complete— the present premises: ■ We' 'areVpleased, i however, to think that with the io--1 creasing business of the paperfthafthis | accommodation is likely to soon prove ' insufficient, and as the building ist so , constructed as to be easily enlarged, t we may expect that it. twill not be a ; long time ere the sound of hammer and saw will be making *> swyee^nTugic" ' in combination with the thud ox. the ' press and the rattle of the com- . pqsitorV type. The ! 'Star pffipes 1 and .Mr Bees' building have both been erected, by Messrs Berry__and Heald, who have had as' .feub-contrac- . tors Messrs Milham, P. Thomson and Fowles to do the bricklayihgV f plumb- : ing- and painting respectively. The architects under whose supervision the whole has been carried out Were Messrs Atkins and Clere, A.8.1.8: A., of Wanganui. .'".*.'.' „., ■'...'.„'. ."''l..'' u \ ■ '■ ■ ".-,'■: . I*^—^i—^■"■» ' *''■■ *' '