BUSTLING HAMILTON

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 315, 28 March 1928, Page 6

BUSTLING HAMILTON

The combination of three premises into one frontage is now proceeding in Victoria Street, and will make an imposing display when completed. The plans have been prepared by Messrs. Edgecumbe and White, architects, Hamilton, and provide for a two-storey building, faced in white concrete. The full frontage to Victoria Street will be 120 ft. by varying depths, one building being 300 ft. deep.

The three premises to be so altered are the Argus Building, Barton and

Ross, general furnishers, and a building owned by Mr. T..W. Maunder and occupied by Barton and Ross. Each shop will have its own entrance, and the business will be conducted entirely apart from the other, the feature being the combination of the three to one frontage. There will be ten display windows in the block, all of which provide for excellent lay-outs, and in one of the busiest sections of the town they should become popular acquisitions to the shopping area. The contract is in the hands of Messrs, Street and Street, of Hamilton. - At the corner of Victoria Street and Alma Street a handsome two-storeyed concrete building for the South Bri-

tish Insurance Company has just been completed. The plans for this were alsc prepared by Messrs. Edgecumbe and White, and the contract price was £14,000.

It is a brick and concrete structure with a frontage of 73ft. to Victoria Street, and 100 ft. to Alma Street. On the former street elevation there are three large shops finished outside In marble and with a suspended veranda. The main entrance to the building is from Alma Street, and this leads into

a vestibule, the floor of which is rubber tiled. Marble stairs give access to the first floor. Every attention has been given to the ventilation and lighting of the building, . the offices ofthe company being located on the ground floor and the upper floor is to be let as offices. A flat roof lias been provided and will allow of a third storey to be erected in the future. The structure is of classic design, and is a further indication of Hamilton’s progress. Other minor jobs are being carried forward, while the residential area has not been neglected. In various districts new houses are making their appearance, the styles of all conforming with the latest to be seen in Auckland.