BANK OF N.Z. CORNER

Press, Volume C, Issue 29608, 2 September 1961, Page 10

BANK OF N.Z. CORNER

Council Approach On Widening

The local management of the Bank of New Zealand yesterday told a group of city councillors tihat the widening of the Colombo street bottleneck would be discussed with the bank’s head office, and undertook to let the council know future building plans. The chairman of the town planning committee (Cr. W P. Glue), the chairman of the works committee (Cr. A R. Gutbrey) and Cr. T. D. Flint and Cr. J. R. Smith, representing the thaffic committee, discussed with the ; bank the -possibiity of improving the corner when the bank’s new building on Colombo street and Cathedral square is erected. At present the old bank on the corner will be left intact. “We pointed out that there was a lot of waste room in the building, and that we were interested in knowing what the bank planned for the future." said Cr. Glue after the meeting. “The bank officials appreciated our anxiety to get something done. We asked, as the council had instructed us to do, that if rebuilding of the old part of the bank was to be delayed for some time the bank should consider the possibility of some pedestrian accessway through or under the building, to allow the roadway to be widened" The new building would be set back 7ft. Cr. Glue said, and the old building would then “stick out like a sore toe.”