11 November 1965 with letterhead regarding egress
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Commercial Print
LIMITED-BOULCOTT AVENUE, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
Telephones 70-909 (3 lines) P.O. Box 1173
The City Engineer,
P.O. Box 2199,
WELLINGTON
Dear Sir
ATTENTIONS MR FRENCH: Ref. No. 6/1129
MEANS OF EGRESS: Premises Boulcott Av.
This matter has been placed in the hands of our architect
Mr B. E. Orchiston, who I understand has had discussions on
the subject with your department.
Yours faithfully,
COMMERCIAL PRINT LIMITED.
M. J. TARR.
Company Secretary.
11 November 1965 with letterhead regarding egress.
By the mid 1960s, CPL was ready to move to a new purpose-built premises in Miramar. However, the company's cash-flow to see this project through was severely impacted when they purchased additional land in Miramar to fulfil their dream of a site which could accommodate their twenty-year expansion programme. As a result, they were forced to remain in Boulcott Street and continued to receive negative reports from the Department of Labour's Inspector of Factories. This one from 1965 points out that the sole emergency egress leads to a narrow alleyway between the CPL building and its immediate neighbour, Vickery & Inkersell and unsafe drainage sump. CPL's reply features the company logo and notes their speciality is colour and display.