Blue plaque № 30437

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Newspaper House. In 1933 the newspaper publishers' Herald and Weekly Times, acquired the W.H. Rocke Ltd building and conducted an architectural competition for the redesign of the building for its city offices. The competition was won by architects Stephenson and Meldrum with a design which incorpor

ated a glass mosaic by M. Napier Waller based on the text "I'll put a girdle around the earth."

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