BUILDING WITH A HISTORY
Tho old building between the Pier Hotel and the existing A.M.P. offices in Customhouse Quay, Wellington, which is at present being demolished to make way for a new nine-floored structure has a curious history. It 3 period of service was, not restricted to Wellington, the building having served the Bank of Australasia in three countries. It was originally built for that bank in England. For quite a time it served the bank in. London. When the time came to pull it down the material from which it was built was considered so good that it was taken down in sections and transferred to Hobart, in Tasmania. Later still it was again taken to pieces and re-erected, in Customhouse Quay, Wellington, where for many years it fronted the harbour opposite the old Queen’s bond. Its timbers have been found to be still very good in tho main ,and were there any urgency the old building, through the portals of which so many millions of pounds have passed, could at a” pinch nave stood another term of duty.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 140, 18 May 1925, Page 11
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180BUILDING WITH A HISTORY Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 140, 18 May 1925, Page 11
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