TAKAPUNA BUILDING
The Takapuna borough building returns for the financial year ended yesterday show a total value of £55,760. This is £15,000 in excess of the total for the previous year.
A palatial new building, to cost ' more than a million pounds, is to take the place of Lever House, on Victoria Embankment, near Blackfriars Bridge —a quite modern building that at : present houses a staff of 1,100. It will be the world headquarters of the Lever Brothers Margarine Union, the capital of which now amounts to more than £130,000,000, and will probably take three years to complete. It will have broad front steps and a lofty tower, which will surpass the new Bush House in the Strand. Reconstruction will be in full swing by Easter. Provision is being made for every modern scheme which will contribute to the comfort and efficiency of the thousands of people who will be employed there. Every room will have windows opening to the sunlight and fresh air. Lever House was formerly De 1 Keyser’s Hotel, which during the war was taken over for the headquarters of the Air Ministry.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 937, 2 April 1930, Page 6
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