THE LARGEST REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDING SOUTH OF THE LINE: THE DOMINION FARMERS' INSTITUTE, WELLINGTON.

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 988, 11 June 1919, Page 8

THE LARGEST REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDING SOUTH OF THE LINE: THE DOMINION FARMERS' INSTITUTE, WELLINGTON.

This magnificent building, which i s now wearing completion, is proof of the unity of .the farmers of New Zealand. Our reproduction is taken from the architect's drawing, which does not show the extra story that is being added, making eight floors in all. The building occupies a triangular block, a quarter acre in area, with frontages to Featherston, Ballance, and Maginnity streets. The total floor area isi two acres and in the erection of the building there have been used 850 tons of cement, 550 tons of small steel, 40,000 square feet of window panes and the total weight of the building is 6000 tons. The structure rests on 79 piers, each 10 to 14 feet long by seven feet square, the old beach forming a very solid foundation for the whole pile. The long corridors of the building are to be used as a sort of nruseum, in which the farm products of the Dominion will be displaced. The Institution was formally opened the other day during the farmers' annual conference.