New Seven-Story Building for Wellington.

Progress, Volume XV, Issue 7, 1 March 1920, Page 739

New Seven-Story Building for Wellington.

For some time past the firm of Macky, Logan, Caldwell, Ltd., have contemplated erecting new warehouse premises in Wellington, as their present quarters in the King's Chambers are more or less unsuitable, and at the same time too valuable for warehouse use. Mr. C. H. Young, local manager, says that it was the intention of the firm to erect a seyen-storied warehouse in lower Cuba Street, and then to let the whole of the King's Chambers in suites or single offices, sample rooms, .etc. To that end the company had purchased from the Rhodes Estate a section adjoining the Columbia Hotel in lower Cuba Street, which extends from that thoroughfare right across the rear of Everybody's Theatre to Cornhill Street. For the present, however", it is only intended to build back from Cuba Street approximately in a line with the eastern wall of Everybody's Theatre, arid on that block—which has a frontage of 68 feeta modern seven-storey

reinforced concrete building will be erected. It is estimated that the new warehouse will -take about two years to put up, Mr. M. Milliken is the reinforced concrete expert concerned, and the builders will be Messrs. Gravatt and Co. Eight y. Might.“ Why did you turn out for that truck? According to the traffic rules, you had the right of way. “Yes,” answered Mr. Chuggins, patiently; “but that truck had the right of weight.'” —Washington “Star.”