HOME FOR LABOUR

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 9 February 1926, Page 8

HOME FOR LABOUR

NEW TEADES HALL.

The principle of the erection of a permanent home for the various labour organisations on the site of {he present Trades Hall in Vivian street was approved at a meeting of the Trades and Labour Council last week.

Plans prepared by Mr. W. Fielding, architect, were examined by the meeting. They provide for two separate buildings, one on the street front, covering the full width of the section (90 feet), and the other in rear. The latter, in which the offices and printing plant of the "New Zealand Worker" are to be installed, will be constructed first, and work will probably commence within, the next six months. The plans of the main building on the street front provide for a three-story structure in concrete and brick, with five shops on the ground floor and union and other offices on the upper floors. A spacious meeting hall has been designed on the first floor of the rear building, approached from the main building by a connecting covered way. The main entrance from' Vivian street gives into a spacious circular-domed vestibule, off which stairs lead to the upper floors. The shops on the street front will be protected by suspension verandahs. The design of the face of the building includes four classic columns flanked on eithei side by red brick panels. The greater part of the exterior finish/will be in plain cement.