TOWN HALL REPAIRS
Better Progress ,Being Made With the additional labour which has been made available this year for repairing the earthquake damage to the Wellington Town Hall, there is an appreciable improvement in the rate of progress. On the eastern side half a dozen of the eleven piers which are being strengthened with reinforced concrete have been completed right up to the curve of the roof, and the rest are being fabricated, while the lateral beam of reinforced concrete, which follows a line just below the windows, is half completed. Both walls of the northern light well have been completely rebuilt in reinforced concrete. In-the main stairway section; much of the brickwork has been scaled in readiness for the strengthening process, will involve lateral bands of stoutly reinforced concrete on a level with the first floor. This section of the building has always suffered more or less from earth movements.
Such is the nature and extent of the work required to be done to make this building tolerably safe that it is not expected to be ready for reoccupation till toward the end of winter at the earliest.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 139, 9 March 1943, Page 3
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189TOWN HALL REPAIRS Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 139, 9 March 1943, Page 3
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