NEW BUILDINGS
FOB THE WAIRATCAPA. FARMERS' ■ CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. Though the price of building has increased at least SO per cent, since the war broke out, thero is fair activity in Wellington, and all 'classes of buifding tradesmen are in short supply. Two eontracts have been let during the past fe,w clays which are now being proceededVith. Both are for Hie Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operativo Association. One is a large three-storied wool store that is to Lβ erected on Thorndnn Qnny, and which will still further help to relieve the pressure on storage space so acutely felt last summer. The new W.F.C.A. storo will have a frontnge to Thorndon Quay ' of fiGft., with a depth of about 120 ft. It will be of brick, and will be for the most part partitionless, with bare boarded floors and ironbark stringers and .story-posts (in lieu of steel, which is unprocurable). The big building, which -will be well ventilated and lighted, will be provided with a. saw-toothed roof with n southerly aspect in order to escape the blaze of sunlight in the summer months. The building, which has been designed by Messrs. Penty and Lawrence, will be erected by Mr. Robert SandersV The contract price is about .EG7OO.
The other building for the AY.F.C.A. is a two-story brick building in the form of oJJLoes and showrooms, to be erected on the corner of .Waring: Taylor and Featherston Streets, those, corporation freehold sections which have been occupied by the M'Leod, Wejr, 'and Hqpkirk timber yard for so long. Tho section has a frontage to Fcatherstoh Street of 40ft. by n frontage to' Waring Taylor Street of 100 ft. For the erection of this building, which is to cost about'.ESOOO, Messrs. Penty and Lawrence have accepted the tender of Mr. ,T. L. M'Millan, of Wellington.
' A Press photographer named Baledant has been sentenced by court-martial at Rouen to 20 years' imprisonment and five years' residential disqualification for espionage in Brussels at the time of the German invasion. Ho was arrested at Tilbury.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3128, 5 July 1917, Page 3
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