What must be easily the most substantial wooden building for its size in New Zealand is now in use as a Sunday school hall at Oban. Stewart Island. Tile Presbyterian congregation there needed such a hall and lately was able to obtain a building 50ft long and 20ft wide which had been erected by a Norwegian whaling company at its base in Paterson’s Inlet. The structure was removed and re-erected near the church at a cost of £4OO. It. has no frame except in the roof, and the walls consist of Bailie pine "planks,” Gin by 3in in section. The timbers, which are tongued and grooved, lie horizontally and are dovetailed at the corners of the building. The latter has comparatively few nails in its construction.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 8
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