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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 18 September 1934, Page 6

In the construction of the new Post Office the people of Dunedin are being provided with their first example of the agility of the workmen who scramble unconcernedly about the steel network of the modern type of skyscraper building. Those who pass the scene of operations have grown accustomed to the sight of the workmen astride some pinnacle of the steadily-mounting fi-amework, but there are ocasional feats of daring which compel the pedestrian to stop and await their successful completion. Recently, one of the cranes was raised to its fullest height, which must have been more than 100 feet above the ground, while a workman, without any aparent concern for his safety, climbed to the top to adjust a pulley and then descended with an air that suggested that what he had done was all in his day’s Avork. While passersby watched with every appearance of anxiety, another workman climbed to a position astride a double length of cable extended between the top of the derrick and the central supporting structure ,of the smaller crane, worked his way towards the centre, where he made an adjustment to the gear, and returned backwards a considerable height above the steelwork until he reached a point from which he could descend. Spectators then breathed more easily after witnessing a feat that would have provided a moving picture camera-man with a first-class “thriller.”