DANGEROUS ORNAMENTS
REMOVAL ADVOCATED
(By Telegraph —Per Press Association)
WELLINGTON, March 3
Top-heavy ornaments on Buildings as an unnecessary danger weie refoired to by Mr W. M. Page, a Wellington architect.
“Our streets are full of them.” he said. “It does not need much knowledge of building construction to realise that those things would come down in an earthquake.” He had advised the Royal Exchange Assurance Company to take the concrete figure off their building in Customhouse Quay for this reason. This work will be done.
Tliev had also advised the Masterton Borough Council to have the post office tower taken down, since such towers in Hastings and Napier had fallen during earthquakes. In an earthquake, these weigths would tend to push out the wall noon which they rested. The Masterton Borough Council had also called upon the Government to bring down legislation to have these dangerous features removed from tlie buildings.
“I am quite sure that this is a question which should he taken up very seriously.” said Mr Page, “for we have a great many of these top-heavy features on our buildings.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1931, Page 5
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184DANGEROUS ORNAMENTS Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1931, Page 5
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