“SHADOW HILL”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 71, 15 June 1927, Page 12

“SHADOW HILL”

“Shadow Hill,” Long Drive, St. Heliers, the home of Mr. Frank G. Binney, is a fine adaptation in wood of colonial Georgian style. The natural beauty of a fine growth of native timber has been left unimpaired and the jarrah weather-boarding of the house, which is unpainted, is becoming a delightful weathergrey. The portico, the columns of which are of jarrah, looks out over St. Heliers Bay—a wonderful vista. The interior decoration is of tinted plaster walls and ceilings. The smaller photograph shows the front entrance, with the building framed in tall manuka. The larger one shows the drawing room and part of the portico. The reserve and elegance of the furnishings are obvious. Messrs. Chilwell and Trevithick, architects, designed the home and the builder was Mr. C. A. Lee.

will in July open Glasgow Corporation’s new Kelvin Hall, which has cost £200,000. The roof, supported by 22 columns, has three spans each 110 ft. wide and about 500 ft. long. Its total area is 170,000 square feet. Auckland citizens should soon be able to get clean water for their morning “tub.” A local pottery has recently supplied a large number of special unglazed earthenware tiles as part of the filtration equipment.—“ The Brick and Pottery Bulletin.” Tenders are being called for the erection of a crematorium which is being undertaken by the Dunedin City Corporation. The building will be erected in the Anderson’s Bay cemetery. The plans were prepared by Mr. G. yv. Gough, the city building surveyor. On April 10 last, Mr. W. Mignes, a foreman bricklayer of Rotherham, England, laid 1,121 bricks in an hour, a world’s record, the previous record being 879. It would be a pretty safe bet that thene was no “smoke-oh” that hour.