CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1928, 29 April 1880, Page 3

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

During the past few months tho improved character of the buildings erected for mercantile and other purposes has been very marked, and amongst those recently finished deserving notice is the warehouse of Messrs W. S. King and Co., sitHato in Lichfield street. This forms part of a block of very substantial buildings, and is certainly a great addition to the street architecture of the city. The building is of brick with a campo front, and is two stories high. Tho warehouse proper, on the lower floor, is a very spacious and lofty one, boing 33 x 50, and 15ft. in the clear. This is intended as the receiving portion of the building, whore the unpacking and putting together of the numerous articles of furniture, &0., dealt in by tho firm will be carried on. It is intended to erect large and commodious workshops in the rear communicating with the warehouse. In these the manufacture of furniture, the covering of imported frames, &c, will be carried on. The upstairs portion, whioh is the same size as the lower floor, except that it is 13ft. 6m. in the clear, will be used as a show room, and is very handsomely fitted with suites of furniture, large mirrors, &c. At the northern end of the show room is a lift, by which the completed articles of furniture are intended to be conveyed from the workshops to the show room. The building has been most substantially built, and altogether is a very good addition to tho warehouses which have from time to time been erected in the locality. Another step'.in the maroh of improvement, though involving the demolition of the old landmarks of Christchurch, will be greeted with satisfaction on the part of all. It is the removal of the incongruous pile of buildings at the junction of Hereford and High streets, known as Fisher's corner. It has long been felt that so conspicuous a site was worthy of being occupied by buildings of a somewhat more pretentious character than those now in course of removal, and it has therefore been determined to erect a very substantial and handsome block of buildings thereon. The new edifice will be of brick, three storeys. The High street frontago will be devoted to shops, of which there will be three, the Hereford street side being reserved for offices, &s., which will also extend over the' upper floors of the shops, though entrance to them will have- to be through Hereford street. The buildings now being demolished are amongst the oldest in Christchurch, but, Beting that they are to be replaced by so excellent a structure, no feeling of sontiment will wish their retention.