Electrical Installation

Progress, Volume XIII, Issue 12, 1 August 1918, Page 289

Electrical Installation

The electrical installation is of a most comprehensive character, comprising over 500 lights and 150 heating pings. Power is supplied from the underground mains of the Auckland City Council, and is led to two main switch boards in the basement from whence it radiates to 29 distribution centres throughout the building. All distributing pipes, telephones, wires, etc., are led up two conduit wells located on either side of the main stairway which extend the whole height of the building, providing an easy means of extending and altering circuits. The main offices and corridors are lit with indirect fixtures giving an even and restful illumination. Lighting and heating points are provided in each tenant’s office, so arranged that any combination of rooms may be grouped for metering purposes at the switchboard with a minimum disturbance of connections. A private intercommunicating system of 20 lines capacity is installed between various parts of the main offices. Conduits radiate from each room in the building to the two conduit wells, permitting the easy installation of exchange telephones without interfering with the internal decorations. The two main elevators are of the Smith Stevens makes, having three speeds, the maximum being 300 ft. per minute. A smaller automatic elevator is provided for goods service. Messrs. Tolley & Son,

Chews Lane, Wellington, are responsible for the sucessful carrying out of the above installations with the exception of the elevators which were installed by The Electric Construction Coy., Auckland.