NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDING
FOUNDATION STONE LAID GREAT CITY LANDMARK [Pur United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 5. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Government Life Insurance building at the corner of Customhouse quay and Brandon street was performed by the Governor-General (Viscount Galway) in the presence of a largo, 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 stories, will bo 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 (Air John T. Mair), will be highly earthquake and fire resisting. It will have a steel frame of a typo new to New Zealand, being a modification of tbo form of construction used by the foremost Japanese authorities on earthquake-resisting building design. It is intended to floodlight the upper portion of the building, and it will therefore bo a striking landmark by night as well as by day.
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Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 3
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187NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDING Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 3
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