QUEEN STREET ACCIDENT.
BALUSTRADE FALLS THROUGH £ VERANDAH. Our incipient peace celebrations narrowly escaped a disastrous beginning; this morning. One of the banners stretched across the street was attachec to the coping of a balustrade at the top of an oriel window in the Victor!*. Arcade. The play of the banner in the wind apparently exercised a good deal of strain, and as a result nearly half the balustrade was pulled down, falling on the roof of Messrs. George FowldX verandah, which gave under the weight. The bricks of the broken coping, and some of the ironwork fell through on to the pavement, and several passers-by had a narrow escape. Fortunately no one was hurt. Mr. F. G. Price, architect, referring to the incident, remarked that the balustrade was put up as an ornament, and was not intended to bear such a strain as it was on a four and a half inch wall. It is fortunate that this accident occurred to-day and not to-morrow, when the pavements will be crowded with sightseers as the procession passes up the street. Mr. Price mentioned that in England it is the duty of certain officials to inspect the decorative portions of buildings from time to time to see that they are safe, and he added that it would be well for the city authorities to have some supervision regarding the points to which the barriers across tha street are attached.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 170, 18 July 1919, Page 4
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