GOVERNMENT LIFE
BIG WELLINGTON BUILDING FOUNDATION STONE LAID (Per Pross Association.) WELLINGTON, lust night. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Government Life Insurance building at tho corner of Customhouse quay and Brandon street, Wellington, was performed to-day by the Governor-General, Viscount Galway, in the presence of a large gathering, including Ministers oi the Grown, 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 ft. to Customhouse quay and 110 ft. to Panama and Brandon streets.
The structure, which was designed by tlie 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 foremast Japanese authorities on earthquake-resisting building design. It is intended to floodlight the upper portion of the building, and therefore it will be a striking landmark by night as well as by day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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186GOVERNMENT LIFE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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