108-YEAR-OLD BUILDING
Demolition At
Lyttelton
The 108-year-old wooden railway goods office at Lyttelton next to the new road traffic bridge, is being rapidly demolished by workmen. The staff long ago moved into the former Harbour Board building abutting it The building was used to stable horses during the building of the rail tunnel, though it was originally built as a store for the Canterbury Association. Before wharf reclamation, it was almost at the water’s edge.
Then it was Matheson’s agency and ultimately Drummond and Matheson’s store before it became railway property. Yesterday it was a shell with holes gaping in the roof.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30045, 1 February 1963, Page 12
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