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This unfortunate result
of the architects satisfactory.
is due to the fact that the condition that certain rooms
must face the east was not communicated to the architects
until after the plans were finished. A point to which so
much importance is attached by the Government that they are
prepared to spoil the building on account of it should have
been laid down from the first, when no doubt the design
satisfactorily could have been so arranged as to provide for it. With
the express object of ensuring that the plans should in
every respect conform to the wishes of the Government,
small scale drawings were sent to the Colony in September
1898, and it is difficult to understand why, if it is so
important that certain rooms should face in a particular
direction, attention was not called to the point when these
drawings were returned to us in February 1899 with a memo-
randum embodying the results of a conference between the
Director of Works, the Chief Justice and other officers
interested.
3. The only way in which, if the present requirements
be adhered to, a thoroughly good result can now be produced is, it appears to us, to ask the architects to re-design the building. This would entail some loss of time and
additional expense, but, unless the Government consider that the architects have much overestimated the inconveni- ences likely to arise, it is for consideration whether it
should not be done.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Matomerm
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