FOUNDATION STONES
Government Life Building TO BE PRESERVED The two foundation-stones from the old Government Life Insurance Buildings will be embodied in the new building. The uninscribed foundation-stone and canister containing coins and documents were removed from the old building before the work of demolition began. The stone was imbedded in the wall in the vestibule. The inscribed foundation-stone erected when additions were made to the original building. and which was in front of the office of the registrar of marriages, births, and deaths, was removed this week. The stones and the canister will also probably be incorporated in the new building to be erected on the present site. Yesterday morning a considerable crowd assembled near the building to watch rhe process of pulling down a well built up close to the adjoining premises. A wire rope was secured to the mass of/ masonry, which weighed about 25 tons. A hawser from a winch was attached, and as the steady pull from the winch came to bear the whole section of wall crashed into the basement.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 223, 16 June 1932, Page 9
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176FOUNDATION STONES Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 223, 16 June 1932, Page 9
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