FOUNDATION STONE LAID
LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING NEW TYPE OF STEEL FRAME (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct. 5. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Government Life Insurance Building at the corner of Customhouse quay and Brandon street was nerformed by .the Governor-General (Viscount Galway) in the presence of a large gathering including Ministers of the Crown, members of Parliament, heads of Government departments, representatives of life insurance companies, and many prominent citizens. The building, which will be of eight storeys, will be an imposing and handsome addition to the city's architecture, and will have frontages of 170 feet to Customhouse quay and 119 feet to Panama and Brandon streets, The structure, which was designed by the Government architect (Mr John T. Mair), will be highly earthquake and fire resisting. It will have a steel frame of a type new to New Zealand, being a modification of the form of construction used by the foremost Japanese authorities on earthquake-resisting building design. It is intended to floodlight the uDper portion of the building, and it will, therefore, be a striking landmark by night as well as by day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23004, 6 October 1936, Page 11
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