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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12910, 5 July 1905, Page 5

A stranger standing near Cargill's Monument (says the Ota»o Daily Times), to view the many fine buildings in sight, would hardly imagine that a little over h&lf-a-oentury ago virgin forest clothed the'presen.t site of many of the fine buildings, and that a creek, over which a bridge had to be erected, hurried down to the pebbly beach across Rattray and unde r what is now the Grand Hotel. This fact was vividly re : called a few clays ago, when some workmen were excavating for the foundations of Messrs. Thomson, Bridger, aid Co.'s new buildings in Princes-street. The section runs back from Princes-street to the rear of the old Otago Hotel, and while excavating the workmen came upon the bed of the creek referred to. Some pieces of fern tree fungus, botara, and broadleaf, that were unearthed 10ft below the surface, afforded mute testimony to the enterprise and resource of the early Dimedin citizens. ;