THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES
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An impression of the Central Government Offices as they will appear when completed early in 1959. The rapid growth of the Colony in cial and social structure soon after the accommodation required for every population, trade, industry and in re-occupation, found the Government branch of the administration.
The every section of its commercial, finan- completely unprepared as far as office widespread destruction and damage
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The site plan of the complete project, showing positions of the two buildings in
relation to other landmarks in the vicinity.
The Central Government Office plans above are of the ground floor showing covered
parking areas.
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wrought during the Japanese occupa- tion caused such an acute shortage of all types of accommodation, that even were the Colony to have pro- gressed only to the restoration of its immediate pre-war basis, it would have been difficult to obtain the office space needed.
However, with the rehabilitation of the Colony proceeding so rapidly and unexpectedly increasing to such an extent beyond its pre-war status, Government was soon compelled to rent office accommodation wherever available, and to make use of such of its own premises as could be tempor- arily built or rehabilitated. Thus the different branches of the Colony's ad- ministration were soon scattered over a very wide area causing considerable inconvenience to the public, and making the task of administration a formidable one. To provide the ac-