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Two unidentified engineers in the City Engineer’s Office are credited with the actual design of this building. Erected in brick and concrete with the exterior plastered in a “delicate shade of green,” the Art Deco style building has a band of bas relief ornamentation that then provided contrasts in brown and beige to “harmonise with the surrounding plantation.” The building’s semi-circular windows, which were intended to admit maximum light, and its interior decoration, also reflected its Art Deco style.

Messrs A.W. Wood & Sons erected the building at a cost of £1,683, and the completed cost (including furnishings) was £1,859. It opened to the public on 21st December 1936. It contained a comfortable rest room for mothers and children complete with water and milk heating facilities, a waiting room, and a lavatory with six cubicles. Two private ‘toilet rooms’ (for changing clothing, freshening up, etc.) were also present, along with the attendants’ room.

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Pākanga
IMCA Digital Archive
Date
June 2020
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2020BD_IMCA-DigitalMaster_031929
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161-163 The Square – Mowlem Buildings (a.k.a. ‘Bares Buildings’)
36 The Square – ‘Childs’ building’, now Lone Star Café & Bar
145-148 The Square, 5-21 Rangitikei Street, 288-302 Cuba Street - @ the hub
1-3 The Square – former Union Bank of Australia/ANZ Chambers
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