OLD LANDMARK GOES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 159, 21 June 1935, Page 9

OLD LANDMARK GOES

Stables on Coleman Estate Links in the chain binding together Napier’s past and present arc gradually disappearing. Another is soon to go. This is the old stable building on the Coleman estate. Colenso Hill. It is over 60 years old and a generation ago was one of the few buildings in that part of Napier. The demolition of these stables is to be started within a few days and, when they have goue, that, ono-llme

large estate will have no more souvenirs of the pioneer days of Napier. At ono time tho Coleman estate measured over nine acres. After the death of the late Mr J. 11. Coleman, tho property was purchased by the Waititerau Syndicate. The old Coleman residence was removed about 1929 and the estale subdivided and a roadway laid down. The passing of the years has witnessed the gradual diminishing of this one time large estate. Sections have been bought and built upon, W’ith tho result that to-day the property has no more than four acres.

Napier residents who remember th" days when Colenso Hill was barren < i dwelling houses may experience a feci ing of regret when they hear that t " Coleman stables are to bo demolish" A casual inspection of them reveals merely an old w-ooden building, but to the sentimentalist, what memories of the past must lurk within their walls. Progress, however, has no time for sentiment, and so this landmark of pioneer Napier days is to go.