CONTRACT LET
NEW P. AND T. BUILDING
TE ARO RECLAMATION
Early this year it was announced that the Post and Telegraph Department intended to erect a five-storey building on the Te Aro reclamation near the State Coal Depot, and having frontages to Herd Street and Chaffers Street. Yesterday the tender for the construction of the building was let to Mr. A. Lemmon, who is expected to make a start within the next few days, possibly on Monday. When completed it will be one of the largest departmental buildings in Wellington. The contract price is approximately £91,000, and it is specified that the building must be finished by November, 1938.
The building will relieve pressure on] accommodation at the General Post Office and at the Wellington East Post Office in Cambridge Terrace. The ground floor is to be used as a line depot and for the accommodation of the fault men, and the remaining floors will be occupied by the whole of the staffs of the accountant's branch of the General Post Office now accommodated in the G.P.O. and the Wellington East Post Office, and the space thus made available in these two buildings will be absorbed by the remaining Departments.
In design the new building will break away from the slab-sided style of other buildings in the Te Aro reclamation" area and should assist materially in improving the appearance of the locality. The building, the architects for which are Mr. Edmund Anscombe and : associates, is to have a frontage of 217 ft to Herd Street and 132 ft to Chaffers Street and will be in the form of an L to afford maximum lighting and ventilation and to ensure every office receiving a maximum of sun. There are to be two tennis courts and other recreation.facilities on the roof, and the building is to be steam-heated The design will also enable the architects to use various colours in the decorative scheme. New Zealand materials and fittings are to be used wherever possible, otherwise they are to be of British origin.
A contract for the installation of a steam-heating plant in the building has] been let to Jenkins and Mack, of Wel-| lington, the price being about £6000.,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1937, Page 12
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367CONTRACT LET Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1937, Page 12
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