THE NEW ORDER OF BUILDINGS

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1909, Page 7

THE NEW ORDER OF BUILDINGS

* MESSRS. PIANNAH AND SON'S PREMISES. Among the monuments of the new order of buildings now rising in the city of Wellington xs the handsome structure erected for Mr. Robert Hannah on the site of the firm's old premises on Lamb-ton-quay. In its exterior of bright red brick, faced with architrave, pilasters and cornices of a worn sandstone hue and its large windows, picked out in white enamel, it is one of the ornaments of the quay. The interior of the building is not yet quite complete. The firm will not move probably for another week or so into their new shop on the ground floor of the new building. The entrance is strikingly adapted for the display of boot and shoe wares. The doorway stands back from the street with a sort of porch leading up to it, lined with show windows in a funnel shape. It is a triumph of the art of display. Within is the long salesroom, lined with shelves stretching up to the ceiling. A novelty is a ladder on each side, running on rails. The walls are finished in white enamel. The whole shop io welJ lit with a number of Ob-x-am lamps. An encased office stands in the« centre. The furniture is in oak, upholstered in "invisible" . green. Of the two other shop premises, with a street frontage on the ground floor, one is taken by Messrs. Alcock and Co., billiard-table manufacturers. The first floor is unoccupied ; but the second has been engaged by Tattersall's Club. The top floor is occupied by the sample looms and other offices of the New Zealand Express Company and Messrs. J. H. Cobb aud Co. The fittings here are in varnished Oregon pine. Lifts, lavatories, and other conveniences are all completely installed. The premises are essentially capacious aud roomy, with ample light from large windows. The architects were Messrs. Penty anrl Blake, the builders Messrs. Trevor and Co. Messrs. R. Y. Walls and Co. installed the electric lights and lifts.

At Gisborne the skipper of the Awanui was fined £1 for landing timber at a place on the wharf other than that indicated by tha. harbourmaster. His crew, he stated in defence, had disobeyed his order. They argued that he nad no control over them on land. A. W. Martin, Sole Controller of Dr. J. A. Shermans method of curing rupture may be consulted at the Hotel Ceril until Saturday, 15th May.— Advt. ihe New Zealand Express Company, 89, Custom House-quay, pack, store, and forward goods to any part of the world. Safe, sure, and economical. Telephone lo£>s. — Advt. The great cricket matches have commenced, anr' it now remains to be seen whether the experts have selected the Coiunioiiwpalth's sfron^e^t force to invade England. Possibly more interest v/ill bo taken in the result of the teat, matches Ihan in estimating the cost of a second New Zealand Dreadnought. Ladies, not interested in cricket, yet like to see good value, should see two special linos now on sale at G. Smith's, Ltd., Cuba-3treet. Tweed juqkets, threo-quurtcr length, in serviceable dark tweeds, 5a lid' and 8s lid; ladies' tweed paletots, in smart heathe* tweeds oi pfcripe effects. 25s Xote the address — C. Smith, Ltd.. Cuba-Mre.et. — Advt.