NEW BUILDING PLAN
EIGHT STOREYS PROPOSED.
TENDER FOR £293,000 ACCEPTED.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night.
Cabinet has authorised the acceptance of Mr. M. G. Templeton’s tender for the erection of an eight-storey building 139 feet high on Customhouse Quay for the Government Life Insurance Department. The building will be surmounted by a metal lighthouse with the upper part of the structure floodlit at night. The structure will be highly earthquake and fire resisting. The price is £293,000 and the contract is to be completed within two years. Work will begin probably next week.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1935, Page 4
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