PLEASING FEATURES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 3, 29 September 1943, Page 4

PLEASING FEATURES

Town Hall Reconstruction

Handsome fluted capitals surmount each of the new strengthening piers which have been built into the Town Hall structure (main hall), making an artistic feature. Plasterers are working on these ornamentations, and from those which have been finished in white cement can be gathered how pleasing the general effect will be. Another improvement is in the ceiling. Hitherto there have been a series of pendent ornaments, in stamped steel, from the centre of which electric light cords descended. These arc being dispensed with and, in their place, flat rose-like ornahients of tasteful design are being substituted. The walls and ceiling of the basement under the platform are being completely lined with carrara. plaster board, which gives the whole of this large room an airy lightness, far removed from that of the ordinary basement. This week work will be continued on the completion of the travelling gantry and the central track, which has still to be erected lengthwise up the centre of the ground floor of the big hall. When that track is readv the painters will be able to move forward in section. They have already made a start with the work of covering the steel ceiling with a coat of creamcoloured paint.