AUCKLAND MUNICIPAL HANDBOOK
The construction of the service reservoirs has varied according to the time of their construction, but those more recently erected have been built of reinforced concrete, with vertical walls and reinforced concrete roofs. The service Reservoirs situated at Arch Hill and Khyber Pass have each a capacity of three million gallons, with a depth of 22 feet 6 inches, while a third on Mount Eden has a depth of 15 feet and a capacity of one and a-half million gallons.
CITY MARKETS.
Auckland's first Municipal Markets were situated between Wellesley Street and Cook Street, and were opened in 1873. They were used until 1917, when the first of the two new buildings, situated in Customs Street West, was opened. The old Markets were demolished in 1921.
The present buildings were erected from the designs of the City Engineer, for the purpose of providing accommodation for firms carrying on business as wholesale fruit and produce auctioneers and merchants.
Building No. 1 is of reinforced concrete frame construction, with brick cavity walls, 11 inches thick in panels. The floors are of reinforced concrete, and the roof is of 24-gauge galvanised corrugated iron. The cost of this building complete was £13,000, the actual floor area provided being 38,628 square feet. The main part of the building consists of a basement, ground floor (three feet above street level), first and second
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