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Kōrero: Building stone

Old Public Trust Building, Wellington

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Old Public Trust Building, Wellington

Completed in 1908, the old Public Trust Building in Lambton Quay, Wellington is the only surviving building made of a true New Zealand granite – from Tonga Bay in north-west Nelson.

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Simon Nathan rāua ko Bruce Hayward, Building stone – Igneous rocks, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/8091/old-public-trust-building-wellington (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Simon Nathan rāua ko Bruce Hayward, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.