WESTPORT P.O. TOWER WAS NOT BUILT UPON FLOATING FOUNDATION.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 19. The contractor for the Westport Post Office states to-day that he attributes the collapse of the tower to the fact that it %\;as, against his judgment, built on too stable foundations, while the remainder of thj building was on floating foundations. He expresses surprise that it has stood so long. It was built in 1910 and he is confident it would have been still standing were it on floating foundations.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18790, 20 June 1929, Page 14
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