SYMBOLIC FIGURES FALL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 113, 3 August 1927, Page 9

SYMBOLIC FIGURES FALL

WORK AT HIPPODROME 400 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. Yesterday they took their last look, end 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 were graceful ornaments, in a way, though they were moulded from concrete and brick. To-day the wreckers are busy inside the Plippodrome Theatre, soon to become a new home for Eady 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. On Monday morning, long before eight o’clock, unemployed men gathered in front of the building. There were about 400 altogether, hut only about half a dozen were required that day. A policeman kept the footpath clear between the ranks of the waiting men.