CENTENNIAL TOWER
DEMOLITION OF LANDMARK [llY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] WELLINGTON, Tuesday Landmark of a twelvemonth, the great Centennial Tower, which dominated the exhibition buildings at Pongotai, is being pulled down. A menace to aircraft, it had no useful place in the scheme of the lloval New Zealand Air Force Station which the exhibition buildings have become. Standing 165 ft. high, the tower showed up conspicuously from seaward, and from across the harbour, and was the main landmark at Lvall Bay since its erection more than a year ago. It was built of massive timber baulks, and was covered with a light wallboard exjterior.
During the course of the Centennial Exhibition, inoro than 150,000 people ascended the tower to enjoy the view from the summit. Many thousands of letters were posted to all parts of the world from the pillar-box at the top.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23722, 31 July 1940, Page 5
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