DUNEDIN'S P.O.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 408, 15 April 1937, Page 6

DUNEDIN'S P.O.

MODERN STRUCTURE. Cost Reaches £360,000. Dimadiii, April 14. Etailt at a cos", cf approximately £360,000, Dunedin’s new Chief Post Office which was opened yesterday by the Po&Jina.'lervG-'neral:, IU/n. F. Jon s, is one oi he mos»t strikiing pubic builUitii - in iHe Dominion. Itsinstruction has b eu spread ovyr eight years, three years having clap--ed during the depression •after tho fCiiudation w. re built b.b ie The couiracl for the building was lc\ The contract. pr:e< was £292,418, nd. a .he time tne Fletcher Consitrucion Company /nt4 Te '..,cui: ents "be contract was the largest e’’cr le»t •is rhe I ’hl ton foi a building, the cost of the Auckland railway s ion being exceeded by £70,000. I rhjt- ParDanient Builjditaigs >VJel- | lington involved a bigger sue., bwt I hat erectiou was carried out in two j sections, par by tbt Public Works i Dcpai” ineut ar .I part by public con- ' tra it. Huge cuaniitier of m.rteriai were | required tor r cons 'action of this , niass- : ve juilTing, c< e pie -d in three land a-half years by the contractors. • ' ey included tthe following; Con- < rc.nforded wi th !st.eel r JlOB cubic yards* boxing for concrete, 534.5G a sup. feet.; structural steel, 2215 tons; rivets, 126 tons; reiniorci: steel for concrete, 311 tons; Putaruru s* one, 12.000 vubic leeif, ftor whi-h IuO.OOO cun • feet of s f < ie and rubble hud to be quarried; crushed me ’, 10,000 tons-, 'erne..’, 4000 tons; sand, 000 < uhic y.»rds.