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Shannon News, 28 April 1922, Page 2

The terms ' power. power how ■ when one her souna^P^^^^^^H pared with the tons which are now 'the fashion—the very minimum of strength consistent with holding together—this relic of early Auckland is solidity itself. TV? studs are six by four inches, arid in-, stead of one lonely brace from corner 1 to corner, each space of about six feet is cross-braced -with extra bits in here and there, just to make certain. Each corner stud is a by six, and extends in one piece f, .om the ground to the top of the second storey. The joists are in keeping, and some of the beams are over a foot thick. Most interesting of all was the method of covering the walls. Instead of the usual weatherboarding upright boards of exceptional width and thickness were used. Each board was a solid bit of kauri about three feet wide by about an inch and ahalf thick, tongued and grooved, and a batten fixed over the joint to make it watertight. To build a place on such a generous scale to-day would cost a small fortune.