NEW G.P.O.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1186, 22 July 1911, Page 4

NEW G.P.O.

UP TO TJIE PAKAPET. Tlio new General Post Oflicc, which is to front FcatlHTslcn Street now makes a bravo show among the buildings wliich. cover tlio land won fruin thu harbour years ago between Lambton Quay and th« existing waterfront. Tlio contractors, Messrs. J. and C. A. Wilton, have mado steady progress during the winter, thanks to a regular supply of Tonga Bay stone, of which the. big building j> constructed, and tho building line has now reached Hie parallel: on the Grey .Str<-tt side. Tho work of lilting in the huge s-tuno cornices on tlio Panama Street frontages is now proceeding, duo of these huge blocks of granite fell to the ground (a. height of U. r ) feet) the othn , day, whilst it was being manipulated into position. On being examined tho block was found to be Intact, wliich speaks well for tlio quality of the stone from the Tonga Day quarries. A couple of weeks ago it was noted in the.-.o columns that u section of tho work had been delayed on account of somclicsitancy on the part of the Public Works Department as to tlio form of construct ion. Sinco then no iitlviso lias been received as to (ho precise, form of reinforcement decided upon for tho flat concrete roof.