TALL CITY CHIMNEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20641, 13 August 1930, Page 8

TALL CITY CHIMNEY.

USEFULNESS OUTGROWN. PROBLEM OF REMOVAL, Of tho huge brick chimney stacks thai were at one time an essential accompaniment of almost every large factory, very, few now remain about Auckland. Modem progress makes them less and less necessary, and their number is steadily decreasing. One of the last and largest- is that of the D.S.C. and Cousins and Cousins, furniture and motor-body .builders, whose chimney li3s stood for well over 30 years directly behind tha . Northern Club. Its fate has been sealed, and its owners are now calling tenders for its dismantling and removal. Standing 100 ft. high, it has become a familiar landmark and can be seen easily from the North 'shore. It was originally used in connection . with the firm's steam boiler fdr driving coach-building and furniture-making £ machinery. But the firm has gone on from coach-building to motor-car work, and steam has been superseded completely by electricity. The chimney is now of no further use. The massive stack will present a for« midable task to the tenderer who undertakes its removal. With streets and buildings closely round its base the speedy method of felling it is out of the question, and whatever technique is adopted it will have to be taken to pieces practically brick by brick. It stands on * base lift, square, and at a. rough calculation, 60,000 bricks have been used in it» construction.