Building Notes

Progress, Volume XII, Issue 11, 1 July 1917, Page 1030

Building Notes

AUCKLAND. Tenders were called on the 13th inst for the re-huilding in brick of the Waipa hotel at Ngaruawhia. Architect, Mr. A. G. Daw. A difficulty has arisen over the recent Arbitration Award granting 2d. per hour war bonus to general labourers and carpenters. The contractors for the new markets, Messrs Fletcher Bros, wrote to the city council asking that the council should pay the war bonus in addition to their present contract price for building the new markets. Although present contracts were exempted from the operation of the Award, as soon as work offered elsewhere the carpenters would naturally go, and great delay might conceivably be incurred by the contractors. Their plea that they should not be penalized through delay due to this cause is a fair one and the council referred the matter to the Works Committee for further consideration. CHRISTCHURCH. Mr. W. V. Wilson, architect, claimed £9 from F. Claridge in the Magistrate’s Court this month as payment for certain plans of a house alleged to have been made by plaintiff under instructions from the defendant. The defence was that the work had been done at the order of a builder and not of defendant, and judgment was given for defendant. Preparations for the erection of now offices for the

staff of the local branch of the Union Steam Ship Company have been started on the site owned by the company in Hereford street, almost opposite the offices of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company. The company’s offices will be at the rear of the present building, and the principal entrance to them will be from Hereford street, and there will be an additional smaller entrance from the right of way. The front portion of the building will be renovated, and will, as hitherto, be let as offices. It is hoped that the Union Company’s staff will be transferred to the new offices early in the coming year. The plans for the new building for the Christchurch Working-men’s Club, a portion of which is to be occupied as offices by the Canterbury Education Board, have been completed, and the work of erection will be put in hand shortly. INVERCARGILL. Mr. Arthur R. Dawson, Invercargill reports the following works on hand:—Concrete residence at Castle Rock for Mr. W. H. Ward, contractor Mr. C. A. White. Brick office buildings for Messrs Fleming and Co. Flourmillers, Invercargill, contractors for the building Messrs Fortune and Wilson and Messrs A. and T. Burt Ltd., for the electric light. The office building which is single storey contains public office, manager’s room, waiting room, typiste’s room, strongroom and up-to-date sanitary conveniences. The walls are of brick finished externally in rough cast and internally in cement compo and Keen’s cement. The ceilings are of lath and plaster throughout and the interior woodwork is of figured rimu finished with egg-shell varnish. The roof is of Marseilles tiles supplied and laid by Messrs Briscoe and Co. Also a reinforced concrete manure store for the Southland Farmers’ Co-operative Association Ltd., in Invercargill. Contractor Mr. H. D. Preston and contract price £1,427/10/-. The floors are reinforced with triangle mesh reinforcement with additional round steel bars, the walls are 16 feet high with 18 ins. x 12 ins. piers each reinforced with four rods, and the curtain walls between the piers are 5 ins. thick with bar reinforcement in two directions. The

roof is of “Poilite” tiles to be supplied and laid by Messrs John Chambers and Son, while a verandah extends along the

whole front of the store. Additions and alterations to residence in Don Street, Invercargill for Dr. A. F. Eitchie Crawford; contractors Messrs Fortune and Wilson; the work comprises alterations, new two car garage, concrete footpaths and fencing work. Catholic school at Nightcaps in reinforced concrete, comprising class room, teacher’s room and cloak room; contractor Mr. P. C. Lee of Invercargill; a modern sanitary system with septic tank is also being installed. Alterations to offices of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. Invercargill, contractor Mr. Wm. Andrews. This work comprises general alterations, new stock and produce rooms and the erection of a hanging verandah to the wool store in Wood street. Alterations to office and store of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. in Gore, contractor Mr. Thos. Latham. The work includes general repairs and painting, inside alterations including a new stock room and the installation of modern sanitary conveniences. Plans are now being prepared and tenders called for a brick dairy building and brick stables for the Invercargill Milk Supply Coy. The dairy will be one of the most up-to-date in the South Island and will comprise receiving room, boiler room, coal room, offices all conveniently grouped round the factory portion. An up-to-date freezing plant together with an improved pasteurizer and the usual cooling apparatus will all be installed. The floors will be of concrete, the walls of brick and the roof of Marseilles tiles.

The stables will contain six stalls with loose boxes and harness room and with cart shed attached. Tenders will also be called shortly for concrete residence at Wrev's Bush. WELLINGTON. Two contracts have been let this month for buildings for the Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Messrs Penty and Lawrence being the architects. One is a large three-storeyed wool store that is to be erected on Thorndon Quay, and which will still further help to relieve the pressure on storage space so accutely felt last summer. The new W.F.C.A. store will have a frontage to Thorndon Quay of (hi feet, with a depth of about 120 feet. It will be of brick, and will be for the most part partitionless, with bare boarded floors and ironbark stringers and storeyposts (in lieu of steel, which is unprocurable).

The big building which will be well ventilated and lighted, will be provided with a saw-toothed roof with a southerly aspect in order to escape the blaze of sunlight in the summer months. The building will be erected by Mr. Robert Sanders. The contract price is about £6,700. The other building for the W.F.C.A. is a two-storey brick building in the form of offices and showrooms, to be erected on the corner of Waring Taylor and Featherston streets, those corporation freehold sections which have been occupied by the McLeod, Weir, and Hopkirk timber yard for so long. The section has a frontage to Featherston street of 40 feet by a frontage to Waring Taylor street of 100 feet. For the erection of this building, which is to cost about £5,000, the tender of Mr. J. L. McMillan, of Wellington has been accepted. Mr. W. Gray Young has been commissioned to design the new building for Scot’s College which is to be removed from Hobson street to Miramar next year. This architect has also several large buildings in hand for the Salvation Army in its various centres. Mr. W. Gray Young reports as follows: Brick extension to Peoples’ Palace, Cuba Street, consists of three storeys of extra sleeping accommodation with bath rooms, with the exception of two sitting-rooms and one smoking-room. Contract price, £8,130; Fletcher Bros, builders. Tenders have been called for the Scott’s College at Miramar. This is the first section estimated to run into

about £II,OOO. The total cost of the college when completed will probably run into about £4.0,000. Tenders have been called for Workmen’s Home and Returned Soldiers’ Hostel at the corner of Vivian Street and Tory Street. This is a Salvation Army building estimated to cost £B,OOO. Also the Salvation Army Citadel at Blenheim to cost £2,065. The tender of Mr. E. S. Knight has been accepted for this work. Residence in Wadestown of the value of £1,600, Horace Collins builder. Buller Street residence: a tender for £l,lOO has been accepted for this, builders Irvine and Burr, and a residence at Rona Bay costing £1,146 has been let to Messrs Wilson and Johnston, builders. Lyall Bay: a residence valued at £740, Mr. Fossette builder.

A very fine building for the National Bank is being erected on the right hand corner of Vivian and Cuba (Streets. Messrs McClelland of Dunedin are building this and the building is estimated to run into about £12,000. Mr. Claude Jones L.R.1.8.A. is the architect, and the building is being erected in the Kahn system of concrete, Mr. A. E. Evans resident engineer, for the Trussed Concrete Company being responsible for the carrying out of the work. This building is to have a stone front of Malmesbury stone and the upper portion sandstone. The order is Corinthian. A feature of the building will be the 20 feet octagonal banking chamber surmounted by an 18 foot glazed dome. Mr. Feilding reports the completion of the Congregational Church in Cambridge Terrace, of which view 7 s are shown in another part of this issue, and the new garage being erected by him for Messrs W. W. Pilkington in Courtenay Place is nearing completion. Messrs Mace Bros, builders are well on with a ferro concrete boarding house at the back of the Terminus Hotel, Courtenay Place. Messrs Fletcher Bros, of Dunedin have in hand at present the foundations for the New Zealand Farmers’ Institute in Featherston Street, a building for Messrs W. J. Helyer in Manners Street, and the new four storey shop’for Messrs J. E. McKenzie in Cuba Street. ;

As reported elsewhere the new Anglican Cathedral has been placed in Mr. Frank Peek’s hands to design.