BUSY DAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1942, Page 4

BUSY DAY

REMOVAL OF PARAPETS & CHIMNEYS ‘ ARMY ACTIVE IN CARTERTON. DAMAGE TO POST OFFICE. Yesterday gangs of carpenters and members of the Armed Forces made good progress in Carterton with the removal of all dangerous parapets cracked by the earthquake. The dangerous massive brick front of the ironmongery department of the W.F.C.A. Ltd. was removed although the work is not yet completed. Dangerouslycracked chimneys at Krahagen s, W. Steven, Watson and Co., Hannah’s, and the Carterton Post Office were removed. It is understood the Post Office building will need an extensive overhaul, and that the clock tower, which i's damaged, will have to be moved. Carter Home in Moreton Road had all except one of its chimneys shaken down, but beyond this not much damage was done. Large crowds of people watched the demolition of a chimney from the northern side of the Post Office. It was pulled down with a heavy rope. The Parkvale cheese factory received a fair amount of damage to its walls and the work of repairs will have to be attended to at once in view of the approaching factory season which opens in August. All the residences at the cheese factories suffered, chimneys being broken. Whey tanks at KokOtau and at Bidwill’s factory were ruined, being razed to the ground.