DAY AND NIGHT WORK
SOCIAL SECI RITY BUILDING ENDEAVOUR TO COMPLETE BY APRIL 1 [Per Press Association. I WELLINGTON, Feb. 13. Working day and night in an endeavour to complete the building by April 1. nearly 300 men are already engaged in erecting the temporary offices for the Social Security Department on railway land in Aotea Quay. The structure will replace the department’s partly completed building which was destroyed by fire. In ad-ytion to the 300 men actually engaged on the job in Aotea Quay, nearly 300 others are preparing the ft<ir.ework tor the now building. On the job itself two 10 hour shifts are being worked. Less than two weeks since the original building was destroyed, 75 per cent, of the foundations of reinforced concrete for the new structure have beer, completed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 8
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133DAY AND NIGHT WORK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 8
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