NEW LABORATORY BUILDIN

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22662, 17 March 1939, Page 10

NEW LABORATORY BUILDIN

* ; WHEAT RESJ RCH INSTITUI MODERN STRUCfRE IN 1 CITY I A new laboratory |r the Wheat Research Institute isfeing built in Hereford street, behii the building formerly occupied bjpke'.ton, Fros* tick and Company, LA., aid used in the last year by Gpernnent de* partments. { The Wheat Researp. Inititute has been accommodate! fo| several years on the first flor of tie factory building, the best ise bang made of the existing faciities. jln about four months, the inititutetvill move into its new premise, andthe rooms now occupied by the laboratory and bakery will be us el for Chvernment departmental business. The future home of tie institute will be a two-storeyed ferro-con* crete building on the lack of the section joining the sqiish rackety court of the Christchurd Club. The land was formerly ccupied by Satterthwaite and Company, and the building occupied iy them has been demolished. Mesrs J. Hama mett and Sons are th contractors for the new building, and they are making the necessar; excavations for the foundations. £he time fixed in the contract for he completion of the building is for months. The laboratory andbakery will b« located on the grouri floor and that first floor will be usd for adminis® tration purposes.