344 Queen St - Network House
Network House of today
- Network House is no longer known by its origional name, having been "St George Bank" headquarters since then.
- The old Brisbane Stockexchange was located on the ground floor.
- The exchange had an observation deck at the back where the public could view the trading board as well as a Translux ticker.
- On the floor of the exchange were 3 parrallel rows of cubicals at which the broker's representives would use telephone to contact their offices to take orders.
- The cubical also had the AAP-Reuters Videomaster screens.
- AAP had over the years, offices on the 7th and 15th floors.
- Company news was also collected by the staff and then retyped onto telix machines for transmission to the AAP wires.
- Staff would have go down to the trading floor and input stock information electronically.
- This service was also collected from other states around Australia.
- The Stockbrokers were then able to get the electronic information from the other states as well as Queensland to trade with.
