TO LAST 1000 YEARS.
NEW BANK OF ENGLAND. A unique procedure has been adopted to advance the building of tlie now Bank of England. Every Monday certain governors of the hank now meet the architect, a representative of the constructors, and other experts to discuss precisely what work will he done before the following Monday. This novel “works committee” are exercising such infinite care over every detail world’s most famous bank that the. building of it is expected to take at least ten years. The cost of the new bank is estimated to-day at £5,000,000. It will house. in addition to the ordinary offices.and business of the hank, the credit of Great Britain in the form of those big blocks of pure gold, generally known as bullion, which are stored in the long, vaulted strongrooms. The new Bank of England will be the finest building in the British Empire, and it is being built to last at least a thousand years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1927, Page 3
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161TO LAST 1000 YEARS. Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1927, Page 3
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