THE EYRIE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE EYRIE

tTHE caretaker or THE SUN building has 1 his eyrie among the cloud castles and the birds, with the space and conveniences of any suburban villa. With his wife and two-year-old he is surely a dweller among the heights. A glance through the interior reveals a modern and compact little home, snugly furnished and complete to the last detail. The living-room is a place of comfort and the kitchen is fitted with all the shelves and cupboards dear to the housewife’s heart. In a convenient position stands an up-to-date gas stove.

Out of doors, bright flowers blooming in pots and young plants greenly thriving in boxes provide the embryo of a future garden. Here the ceaseless activity of city life is subdued to a murmur, the whirring ot trams, the hoarse outcry of motor horns, the constant beat of innumerable feet are merged and blended and seem to drift upwards like a dim echo from another world, while the two-year-old runs hither and thither about her sunny playground, intent on her childish affairs and apparently quite unconscious of matters of such slight importance as mere locality and altitude. A stone parapet, shoulder-high, encloses the roof garden and affords it the privacy of a clipped suburban hedge, but on north, south, east, and west there is a magnificent view. On every side spreads the city, patterned with reds and greys, the green spaces of parks and gardens, the white loveliness of statuesque towers gleaming in the sunshine, the restful symmetry of domes and steeples, like a kaleidoscope framed in a fitting setting of dim blue hills and sea.