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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 August 1924, Page 8

Following the discovery that the old destructor smoke stack in Wellington wu s built with lime (and not cement) mortal-, the city engineer decided that this lofty encumbrance, which has stood unused for sole, sixteen years in the coiporation yard at Clyde" Quay, should come down. Owing to the stack being surrounded with "workshops of various kinds, it could not be topped over in the ordinary wav, besides which the bricks are good bricks, and at the market price are worth salving. So on Monday morning (the Dominion reports) a start was made to demolish the stack (which was erected in 1888, when the late Mr. Samuel Frown was Mayor), commencing from the top, and working from the inside. Although only two days’ work have been done, the .substantial cap of the stack has already disappeared, and daily the stack will diminish until by the end of August the structure should he nought hut a pile of bricks—perhaps 100,000—which are to be used to wall in the corporation’s property on the northern boundary. The disappearing destructor was erected by Messrs Manlove, Alliott, and Fryer at a cost of £4403. In 1907-08 the council accepted the tender of Messrs Keenan and Troude, Ltd., of Manchester, to erect the present destructor, which cost in all £22,000.