For the past twenty years or so, two bronze statuettes, mounted on concrete plinths about six feet in height, have shown the way to the rear entrance of the Empire Hotel, in Victoria Street. For some years the torch with which the female figures were to light the way in to the hostelry have not functioned, and as alterations in the premises have rendered their purpose unnecessary, the owners of the hotel offered the figures, which are quite graceful, to the City Corporation, which accepted th cm. It was decided that they might be removed and placed on either side of the main entrance to the New town Public Library. On Friday workmen displaced the statuettes by first loosening the concrete plinth (which spanned the side channel and kerb of the footpath) and then hoisted the whole column, plinth and figure, on to a lorry. -"Dominion," photo.

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 179, 27 April 1931, Page 10

For the past twenty years or so, two bronze statuettes, mounted on concrete plinths about six feet in height, have shown the way to the rear entrance of the Empire Hotel, in Victoria Street. For some years the torch with which the female figures were to light the way in to the hostelry have not functioned, and as alterations in the premises have rendered their purpose unnecessary, the owners of the hotel offered the figures, which are quite graceful, to the City Corporation, which accepted th cm. It was decided that they might be removed and placed on either side of the main entrance to the New town Public Library. On Friday workmen displaced the statuettes by first loosening the concrete plinth (which spanned the side channel and kerb of the footpath) and then hoisted the whole column, plinth and figure, on to a lorry. -"Dominion," photo.