FOUNDATION STONE LAID BY LORD GALWAY
GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING
(I’HESS ASSOCIATION TELEGCAiI.)
WELLINGTON, October 5
The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Government Life Insurance building at the corner of Customhouse quay and Brandon street was performed by his Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Galway) in the presence of a large gathering, including Ministers of the Crown, members of Parliament, heads of Government departments, representatives of life insurance companies, and many prominent citizens.
The building, which will be of eight storeys, will be an imposing and handsome addition to the city’s architecture, and will have frontages of 170 feet to Customhouse quay and 119 feet to Panama and Brandon streets. Designed by the Government architect (Mr John T. Mair), it will be highly earthquake-resisting and fireresisting. It will have a steel frame of a type new to New Zealand, being a modification of the form of construction used by the foremost Japanese authorities on earthquake-resisting building design. It is intended to floodlight the upper portion of the building, and it therefore will be a stinking landmark by night as well as by day.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21906, 6 October 1936, Page 8
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