FLATS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 721, 21 January 1910, Page 6

FLATS.

.WANTED IN -WELLINGTON;

;■ WlI1 >ani Cricbton, of the firm of -~. .Cnchton and it'Kay, ■ architects, who from .a' trip to Eugland pfcand.;:the^'Contineht, ! "comes:.back ; with: the ( y &m conviction 'that.:>the; form? of resi- .:. dential life. in'.'Wellin'gtoii will undergo . 0 change within the next year or two. V , .flats eveiywhere—in ; all the' ybig..cihcs I camo across;, whole colonics' :pM',-nats:;right: in the centre bf v the, city.i/'t; XP?^|ee_^ aiblock .bf/ l buildings.''with^' : a ground floor] frontage.- ofshops/' and'-; in-': Ss-.fluire how.the;other : seven : or:eight'storeys ...' : 's ra occupied; , The';,iuvariablo. answer' is— %i:flats.;}:: Flats? for- married.' people;' flats s'jSlpr,: even- for single girls, v. Tun in. every -imaginable ~way.What, is '.■•the, reasons for .it?.. Well, who-can say? It-may. bo the cervant curse—it may be i;;.".;the;desire.to-get away. from:, the'drudgery 0f... house-lceeping, tho eternal • bed-mak- ; ;:v ing, uoor-scrubbing, dish-washing - work puts;an, edge .on. to many a good flats' in,Wellington—iwith'. our cramped ' city, . and our servant troubles it is tho city JRideal, for:'flats.;, : Most people do not'know' ;sKwhat they, are,' or-'how they ; are run'yet.; .The.most, popular ones at Home aro thoso ; .;-.managed. by a .'.steward,: . with:-' separate : f-.... suites of .rooms' completely, ; shut off ; from' |. . everyone else—privacy' is: assured—and" a p:;y.common" dining-room, in which" each con6,:V;:ple J or: : family., has its ■'.own-table, 'andf:•;{often . its .. own '■ :menu.. . These. .buildings j. .-are served;by. lifts,' and life'is' really very . comfortable, i not to say. :frao and. easy.: f There are other sorts ,of .flats—some, for jy.;. instance, . for y, bachelors only' without" a ;- ' dining-room, at all. Tho occupants 'of . these quarters lead a cafe existence, break-: and dining at. fancy's j' ; dictation. . .. .., >, \.. pt • "Strange-'.to . say people pay, more "for i^ftecfe;.than?; ; fprVcfirat:Htom; .flats; "There [ is never -much to. see out of high-up it jis; no- ad-, in the' front. -Eather.;the Be- other, .way,; as.: at the: back of a big block I'Vj'! you are. away .from the noise and clatter' iS of tho street /cars;; the 'barrdw-man, the. fiJvßfeet', orator,and ■ the ?'nntamed. Snffra-f.;::.gette.'.'.-'At;.the back : all is peaco: and quiet,. i -and;, the value, of it.is'.assessed by /the landlord in shillings and pence, j f;o"S6isl6'dttj; ;sonieorie will :.build flats in ?., the centre of Wellington and will make ('. money;.you see!". •: "