3
and in view of the large sums involved the period
required for completion may have to be extended.
5. Until the new Government Offices are
built, the Staff from the demolished offices
would be housed in a building to be erected
on the western end of Section A.
building would be so erected that it could be
This
reconverted and sold when no longer required for
at first be homeless & would then temporary offices. The "City Hall" would be
temporarily housed in the present Government
House until the new accommodation was ready.
In case it should not be found desirable
6.
to carry through the whole scheme continuously a
halt could be called at a point where the
following items had be en completed:-
Credit:
Sale of City Hall site and part of Section A not required for temporary Government Buildings
Debit:
$4,563,260.
Resumption of T.L.580.
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I.L.564
Formation of Section A
Rebuilding of Government House
Temporary Government uffices
622,750 160,000
600,000
2,000,000
350,000
3.732.750.
An estimated credit balance at this point of
$830,510.
7. It appears from the reports of the
Retrenchment Commission and of the Director of
Public Works which form enclosures 3 and 4 to the
despatch that Government House is too small and is
out of date and expensive to maintain. I do not
think that we need quarrel with the proposed
removal to the Peak District especially as this
may result in the closing of the Governor's
summer residence.
The sale of the present site
for