Wellington’s New Customhouse.
Plane for the new Customhouse building have been prepared by the Public Works Department. There will be frontages to Waterloo-quay (120 ft) and the harbour, and 63ft to the side streets. There will be a basement and four floors above, and the height of -the building to the top of the parapet will be 70ft from the pavement, and to the top of the turret 90ft. The basement will be a heavy rock-faced Port Chalmers bluestohe, the upper part of the 'ground floor of Oamaru stone facings. The reof wi.l be of green slates, and on the ridge will be a large ventilating turret, with copper dome roof, surmounted ■by a flagstaff. The balcony round the tower will command an extensive view of the harbour _ and shipping. The mam entrance from Waterloo-quay will be a circular archway, supported on double shafts of polished Aberdeen granite. To a large extent the building will be of fire-resisting construction, and all the ceilings will be of asbestic plaster. —Post.
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Manawatu Herald, 5 July 1902, Page 2
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169Wellington’s New Customhouse. Manawatu Herald, 5 July 1902, Page 2
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