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The Robing Room and the Jury Room have now been transposed.
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Accommodation for a custodian has been provided on the Ground Floor, and also a room for Constables.
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The Cells have been reduced to two in number. A special entrance for the Clerical staff of the Registrar has been provided.
7. The required Storage room on the ground has been provided by curtailing the space previously allotted to a Receiving Room for Prisoners.
8. A room on the Ground Floor has been provided for Registry Records.
It will probably be sufficient if a lift be provided to the stairs next the Judge's entrance but the three staircases are so arranged that a lift may be placed in each if found desirable. As it is contemplated to light the building by electric light, an electric motor would be available for the lifts.
10. By recessing the window sashes flush with the inner faces of the thick walls and slightly projecting the external cornices or pediments over the windows, the necessary protection in the way of "hood" will, it is thought, be afforded.
11. Steel trusses, girders, joists &c. are proposed for use throughout the building.
12. It is proposed to construct the flat roofs of "granolithic" cast in slabs of the required sizes, laid to a current upon a bed of asphalte * thick over a filling of coke breeze concrete supported by steel joists. Granolithic will not suffer from exposure to the heat and will protect the asphalte, which will in turn provide
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