MARCH OF PROGRESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 202, 15 November 1927, Page 1

MARCH OF PROGRESS

NEW BUILDING FOR QUEEN ST. WIDENING VULCAN LANE ANCE the pride of Queen Street. ' but now, at about 50 years of age, to be demolished to make way for a steel and concrete structure, the building on the corner of Vulcan Lane and Queen Street, occupied by Hutchinson Bros. (Ltd.), is enjoying its last few weeks of a useful life. In February the wreckers will take it in hand and a few months afterwards another towering concrete structure will be commenced to add to the impressive array in the city's main thoroughfare. The drawing of the perspective is not yet available, but it will probably be as distinctive a structure as the recently completed Dilworth Building. Together with this improvement another of some importance will be made—the widening of Vulcan Lane by 16 feet. Some time will elapse before this will be completed, as leases in buildings further up the lane do not expire until nearly the end of next year, but the new building will be nearing completion by that time. The structures to be demolished will be all those between Vulcan Lane and J. R. McKenzie’s, and the southern or top side of Vulcan Lane will run through the centre of the present doorway into the shop of Hutchinson Bros., who will vacate during rebuilding operations, taking up temporary premises in'Eady’s— which happens to have been thr t old home—until they can move back to establish themselves in the new building. The area on which the new buildings will rise is owned by a syndicate and the City Council will secure the land for widening at a cost in the vicinity of £5,000 or £6,000. which is good business, considering that nowadays 16 feet of land in this part of Queen Street is worth considerably more than £16,000.