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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9043, 14 May 1915, Page 5

It Bias been decided by .the ißank of New Zealand authorities -to a storey to their budding at the corner of Lambton quay and Customhouse' quay. The whole building, while this work is being carried put, will- bo considerably i mproved, . thp banking chamber itself undergoing radical alterations. A great light dome, 20 feet in diameter, will bo constructed, passing through all tho floors, made to give light from above, supplementary to the light already received from the windows oh each side of tho banki The branch staff will be accommodated in the centre of the floor, and tho public will have access to tho teller*), ledgers, and other departments by corridors running parallel with Lambton quay and Customhouse. quay. • ,Th© staff of the branch will bo more concentrated hy this arrangement thaiii it is at present. Access bo tho upper floors will bo by means of electric lift'f, one at the Lambton quay side and one at the Customhouse quay side. TlVo main entrapo at the epox of the triangle will remain unchanged. Each angle of the building .Will be finished toff With a dome. The nltorationswill (he carried oh as much hs possible without interference with the public and tlie staff. The plans have been prejMTed by the firm of Thomas Turnbull] and Son, FF.8.1.r 8.A., which also H t esigned the recentlycompleted To Arc) (branch of the bank. |