BIGGEST WOOL STORE IN THE DOMINION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3000, 10 February 1917, Page 12

BIGGEST WOOL STORE IN THE DOMINION

FOR MUIUSAY, ROBERTS, AND CO. Wellington already possesses some of the largest and best-appointed wool stores in the whole of the Dominion, and yet the space for storing wool pending sales and shipment is inadequate. At the present time wool is nold, not only in the woolstores, but in other sheds and lialls that were never intended for sucli a. purpose. It is not so many years ago sinco Slessrs. Murray, Roberts, and Co., erected a large store at Tliorndon, under the impression then that they were anticipating the future of the trade, but they wore only dealing with the present. They have since found that they built too small, and have now made all arrangements for the erection on the new reclaimed land (Harbour Board lease;, at Waterloo Quay, for what will be tho biggest wool store in the Dominion. The plans, which have been prepared by Slessrs. Crichton and iM'lvay, provide for a two-story building of brjck and hardwood timber that will provide 70,000 square feet of floor space. The now store, the first pile of which was driven yesterday, occupies a most convenient and central site, in immediate touch with the railway system and tho wharves where the deep-sea! ships berth. It' is a block of land on the corner of Waterloo Quay and Cornwell Street (one of the new streets that traverse tho reclaimed land from west to east. The store will have a frontage 'of 52J26 feet to Waterloo Quay and one of 190 ft. to Ooriiwell Street. This latter measurement includes a space of 33ft. for a double railway track that will traverse the whole length of tho building (inside) along the Waterloo Quay frontage. The elevations will be tastefully finished in red press brick with cement facings. An ornamental touch is added by each of the windows being massively arched, the openings in each arch being • used as ventilators. Probably the difficulty of procuring steel has decided the architects in specifying hardwood piles, floors, and pillars throughout the building. The ground floor is divided in three main apartments —a wool store (IGO by ISO feet), a merchandise department (70 by 125 feet), and a hides and skins store (115 by 48 feet). The two last-mentioned apartments will be floored in,concrete. . The western frontage will open out on to the ' double railway track, whilst overhead there will be hatches provided with electric hoists to load and unload goods dircct into the railway trucks. There, are no fewer than nine of these electric hoists commanding hatchways, in addition to wool chutes. On the' ground floor there will also be an office for tho shed staff, a buyers' luncheon room, and one for the men. The whole of the top floor is one vast unpartitioned floor for wool (35.000 square feet of it), which will be made as light as day by the cleverly devised saw-tooth roof with a southern aspect. So acute is the angle of the blind side of each window that the rqof will be practically one of glass. For the rest a patent roofing will, be used. The building backs on to the Public Works Stores to the south, but on the west the firm has reserved a block of 50ft. as a yard and cart, entrance oil the eastern side of the building. As. the land is reclaimed, the whole area of the building will have to be piled to a depth of 21ft., which task will necessitate the driving of COO piles. The building is to be completed by November 1 beginning of the next wool season. • The contractors are Slessrs. Campbell and Burke.

We have often been asked in what nay we .differ from other businesses. We sell direct to consumers, we act as ■our own agents. We do not want you to take up shares, having ample capital for our business. You can send us your cream any day you like all the year round. We have picked experts ahead of our business. They hold their position because they are able to save money for our suppliers. Make one of them, and see if we are not stating foots. Send your cream to the Maoriland Dairy Co., Ltd. We reply promptly to any letters you may write us. P.O. Box 185, Wanganui.—Advt.