SYMBOLIC FIGURES FALL
WORK AT HIPPODROME 490 MEN LOOK FOR WORK For nearly 57 years two symbolic figures have watched over Queen Street from the top of the old A.M.P. building beside the Hippodrome Theatre. To-day they took their last look, and fell, victims of the workman's hammer. Those two figures have kept faith—“Fidem Teneo” is the motto in stone below them. Not all the storms of over half a century have damaged them. They wore graceful ornaments, in a way, though they were moulded from concrete and brick. To-day the wreckers arc busy inside the Hippodrome Theatre, soon to become a new home for Ead.v and Son. Timber and the dust of many years are flying in all directions. Mr. Cecil A. Lee, the contractor, watched the interior of the building slowly become a ruin so that he can get busy erecting the new one. The old seats are being sent to Cambridge, where they will be used in the town hall. Yesterday morning, long before eight o’clock, unemployed men gathered in front of the building. There were about 400 altogether, but only about half a dozen were required that day.
A policeman kept the footpath clear between the ranks of the waiting men.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 9
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