THE NEW POST OFFICE.
PROGRESS OF CONSTRUCTION. Excellent progress is being made by Messrs, J, and A. Wilson with the erection of the fine block of buildings which will next your be the Gonere.! jfost Office for (lie Dominion. At the present time the masHvo walls of whitey-grev Tunga Hay granilo lir.ve already reached within a loot or two of I lie height of tho parapet of tho existing General Post Of. flee, on which it hack. A glance at tho plans shows that when the four stories are up the heigh: of the parapet of tho new building will only be lift, above Hint of the old one, and that for the st.vio of architecture employed, and (he solid character of the fabric, the structure will have a squat appearance, which would not have been (lie ease had (ho original fifth slorv been relnined. All the steel girders -I'jNchions for the building are now in n ellington, and the stone, of iino even quality is coming to hand i:i ample sun- !»'>; Jho contractors cxpect. to be ready to begin the construction of the flat roof ut tho end of next nion:li. The contract time expires in November, but the contractors anticipate that it will bo quite the end of tho year before thev are in a position to hand tho building over.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 2 May 1911, Page 4
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223THE NEW POST OFFICE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 2 May 1911, Page 4
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