CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4010, 23 December 1874, Page 2

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

Messrs W. and J. Scoular have recently made very extensive additions to their bonded and free stores in Dunedin, which afford another evidence, if any wore needed, of the thriving state of trade in the city. Adjoining their old stores, fronting Jetty, Bond, and Crawford streets, the .Messrs Scoular have erected premises measuring 81ft. by 66ft., built of brick upon a stone basement, finished in cement, with a slate roof. The whole of their buildings now measures 132 ft. by> i 81ft., having a frontage to the three streets named above. In the new premises there are three floors, the basement being used for cellarage and the two upper storey's for the storage of general merchandise. . A roadway runs through the centre of the building communica-ing with a superior hydraulic lift, capable of lifting over 2£ tons when required. Communi-c-ition between the old and new premises I is maintained by means of fire-proof iron doors in each flat—the whole of the new building and half the original one being used as a bond. Good progress is now being made towards the completion of the extensive premises of Messrs Brown, Ewing, and Co." T-he" unfinished part of the premises on the street floor is to be "used as a showroom, and it is expected that this part will be opened about the 23rd inst. The whole of the rooms oh the upper floors will be completed by about the new year. A large number of hands are now employed in the upper floor, an extensive manufacturing business being carried on. The work-rooms are well lighted, lofty, and well ventilated;