REMOVAL OF CORNICES
Harbour Board Building For some time past men have been employed chipping off the rather heavy concrete cornices from the Wellington Harbour Board’s big tliree-story brick building on the northern side of the entrance to Queen’s Wharf. The work lias been undertaken in the interests of greater earthquake resistance. Not only are the projecting cornices disappearing, to be replaced by a flat plaster finish, but also the heavy parapet is being replaced with one of slightly lighter construction. The new parapet, however, will be strongly reinforced with steel which, when continued right round the building, will form a strong band of reinforcement which should give the structure added earthquake resistance. Tn addition, the cement work, of which there is a good deal on this building, which was erected in 1896, is to be painted cream with the preparation which has already been used on the Town Hall and the Supreme Court building, and with which the harbour board has recently brightened up its headquarters on the southern side of the Queen’s Wharf entrance.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 152, 24 March 1938, Page 16
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176REMOVAL OF CORNICES Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 152, 24 March 1938, Page 16
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