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Hon. D. P. W.
Enclosure No. 1.
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Development of Sites of Government House and
Government Offices.
The following is a brief report on the scope of the Scheme
and the method by which it is proposed to execute it.
The area involved comprises approximately the whole of the
Crown land contained within the following boundaries Garden Road,
Queens Road, Ice House Street and Upper Albert Road together with
the following privately owned land within the same boundaries -
I.L. 580 (owned by the H.K. & S.Bank) and I.L. 564 (situated in Ice
House Street).
The sale of the old City Hall site is also included.
The removal of a number of existing Government buildings
and the erection of new ones on other sites is necessary. Those to
be removed are Government House, all Government Offices within the
area (the Colonial Secretariat and Public Works Department), the
Volunteer Headquarters and Beaconsfield Arcade. The new ones to be
built are A new Government House on the old Militery Sanitorium
Site near Magazine Gap, New Government Offices in a position to
accord with the new lay-out and a new Volunteer Headquarters on a
site to be decided upon later. The new Government Offices will be
sufficiently large to provide accommodation for the Colonial
Secretariat and Public Works Department with, it is hoped,
sufficient space to provide for another Government Department in
addition. Such of the existing City Hall accommodation as it is
necessary to reprovision will also be contained within this building.
Temporary accommodation for the Colonial Secretariat and Public Works
Department must be found from the time when it becomes necessary to
demolish their existing offices until the new Government Offices are
built and it is proposed to overcome this difficulty in the
following manner a portion of Section A (the first to be developed) will be reserved temporarily for Government and on it will be erected a new building which will ultimately be sold with
This building will be pań planned with the land on which it stands. few internal walls and large open floors which can be adapted to their temporary purpose by the erection of light partitions.