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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1956Vol. XXVI, No.9

Suva Building [?]

p. 24 · Read in the full issue

A N.Z. Bank Buys Suva Building [?]

IN purchasing recently from

Garrick Estate the site occuj by Joong King Loong, the A\ tralia and New Zealand Bank I has acquired a property in the bit ness heart of Suva.

Price was £F33,000.

The Thomson Street frontage the property runs from the Gam Hotel to the premises of W. .

Carpenter & Co. on a 60-ft fronts at the rear, in Renwick Road, wii of the property is 200 ft.

Vacant possession would be tax as soon as possible, said the Manager of ANZ, Mr. G. Robe* and new premises will be ereo ( shortly after.

The price—£F5OO a foot —is s to be the highest price yet p for a city block.

Thomson Street contains such o established premises as W. Horm Co., W. R. Carpenter Ltd., and n to that again Morris Hedstrom I Renwick Road contains most of oldest established Indian wholeie and retail firms as well as mr smaller stores well patronised 1 local people of all races and n ticularly tourists and passengers? ships passing through Suva.