Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building Completed Depicting solidity, strength, and stability the magnificent new building of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation at Hongkong was opened officially on Thursday by the Officer Administering the Government of Honkong.
Fifty-two years have passed since the erection of the old building. The hew building is in Statue Square, the centre of the oily of Victoria, overlooks Hongkong harbour towards Kowloon, Two large bronze tions, similar to those which have attracted the almost superstitious reverence of the Chinese "in Shanghai, stand at the entrance from Des" Vooux "Road. These "models, symbolical "of " the British spirit, were cast by Mr, W. W, Wagstaff of Shanghai The main entrance of the building 4s, however, from Queen's Road anti approached by a wide fight of steps, which are flanked by two: Aights, one leading to the Entrance Hall of the office and the other to the Chinese Department. The main fower of the building stands about two hundred and twenty. feet height and the main entrance is Protected and ornamented by a pair (of magnificent bronze gates A twenty-ton polished steal door guards the safe deposit room. Constructed of a special stech, which essists all forms of safe breaking,
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