IMPROVEMENTS ON THE COAST.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3182, 30 March 1911, Page 4

IMPROVEMENTS ON THE COAST.

LARGE BUILDINGS TO BE ERECTED AT TOKOMARU.

Nothing marks the progress which is taking place on the Coast so clearly as the briskness which is at present existing in the building trade. The Tokomaru Farmers’ Company are at present having plans prepared for the erection of comcdious new premises in brick, at a cost of about £4OOO. The new building will be 96ft by 6-Sft, and provision is made for all the departments being kept separate. The company is also having a building. -58 ft by 28ft, erected to accommodate its staff. The company has recently extended its operations by the erection of a branch store at Waima, near the wharf, which carries £IOOO worth of stock.

A new public hall is about to he erected at Tokomaru by public subscription, at a cost of about £IOOO. This will supply a much-felt want in the township, as up to the present all public entertainments hare had to be held in the Maori hall, which is a corrugated iron building, possessing neither architectural beauty nor modern conveniences.

Funds are also at present being raised for the erection of an Anglican church at Tokomaru. A conti nc-t has also been let for extensive additions to the Te Puka Hotel, at Tokomaru, .which should make this popular hostelry more capable of coping with the heavy passenger traffic at present existing on the Coast.