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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 401, 9 January 1909, Page 7

An old identity in buildings -is disappearing in the; old one-story building 'on the cprner, of ; Panama ■. jwd - Featherstpn Streets, occupied by Messni. Moorhouse and Iladfiold, ana various other tenants, . for mMiy years past. Tho site is to be occupied by a four-story ferro-conc'retft block, of .buildings, a continuation of the building recently erected by Messrs; Moorhouse and Etadfield (owners of Botli' properties) in Panama Str«et. Tho plans, which were executed by Mr/ 0. Tilleard/Natusch, provide for a very commodious building l of handsome design. The reinforcement of the concrete will bo of indented steel bars for the . columns and walls, indented • steel ; and Kahn bars - for beams, and expanded metal for . floors and 'ceilings.-:' The main eritranoe, from Featherston Street, will, open into a spacious hall, from which tho main stairway will rise to the roof, and provision is made for a passenger, elevator. The whole of tho ground floor will bo occupied by the owners* and the other floors will be lot as oflicc.i. Tho building will have a flat roof of reinforced mnlthoid. Tho tender of Mr. Win, Glonilinning Ims been aocopted for the erection of the building. * . ..; An advertisement regarding the sale by order of the registrar of tho Supreme Court of o picco of ; land at Island Bay is inserted by Messrs; Baker Bros, in this Issue. The annual statutory 'meetingfct contributors tovthe Wellington Hospital Funds will be held in No. 1 Committee Boom, Town Hall, on Thursday, January 14, 1909, at 3 p.m., to elect a trustee.