CEILING FALLS.
PUBLIC TRUST INCIDENT. . BIG RAFTER COLLAPSES. There was something more than a. mild surprise waitinar for cWks in the legal branch of the Public Trust Office at Wellinaton when they went back to work after the week-end. They found that one of the great rafters at the end of the big room had collapsed, and that a mass of masonry had fallen upon the floor and desks, "smashing two of the clerks' chairs to pieces. There is a crack running throughout the length of the ceiling, which has been there ever since a severe earthquake years ago, and which has been plastered over. There was a further slight shock three or four days ago, and this must have proved the undoing of the immense beam. Had ihe collapse taken place during a week day it must have been fatal for someone in the room. Now the Public Works men have been over the ceiling, and have marked several more rafters as unsafe. Meantime the clerks have moved their desks from beneath any of the enormous beams.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1926, Page 6
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178CEILING FALLS. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1926, Page 6
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