PONSONBY POLICE BARRACKS

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 225, 20 September 1906, Page 5

PONSONBY POLICE BARRACKS

Tlie aid wooden building known as the Xewton Police Station, which has done duty io~ the past thirty years, has today been deserted, and it.- sombre-look-in:, portals- will henceforth a old no terrors for evia-doers. The substantial new bs.rra_k= erected in Ponsonby-road soar the reservoir i- now ready for occupation, and the police arc bn<-- transferring their belo_gi__rs. Thi- new __ilding is an imposing douhle-storeyed structure, built of pai° bricks with the window arches, doorway. eti\. picked onr with lark red bricks, which add- to its "o_mandine asnert. It is a building that could not very weli be mistaken for .-.-thins- other than the object for which it was buiit. The. ground fioor eon tains offices, a capacious drawingmn— a Large and well-appo-nted kitchen and pantry, and also a cxurifortahle sittin- room fnrni_hed -with __hoisrered benches. The upper -t;oTey i_ Dartitioned off into bed roc_is. A couple cf bath rooms and ample lavatory aeecTrn_.Gdat.ion are also provided. Tiie quarters for the serge_nr-in-charge comprise a conrrortahle eight-roomed house, whilst a carriageway between the : main buildiu- and the _erg___i*s. cp__rI ters gives aeesss to the yard at the back [■where/ the c_E_ ax& __t_ase_-