plan), from the Chairman of the Sanitary Board, (the Honourable I. M. Price), recommending, for the reasons assigned, the creation of a new Central Market.
I can bear my testimony, from frequent personal inspection, of the urgency of the completion of this work, on grounds of health, order, and cleanliness. The present Central Market is a disgrace to any British City.
I trust that your Lordship will cause me to be authorized by telegraph to proceed with (C.S.O. No. 1501 of 1883).
No. S.
SIR,
Enclosure
The Chairman, Sanitary Board to the Colonial Secretary.
SANITARY BOARD Room, 16th June, 1883.
With reference to your letter of the 13th April last and its enclosure, I have the honour to state in reply to paragraph 5 of the latter, that the Sanitary Board will shortly be in a position to submit a report, upon the proposed improved regulation of public markets generally.
2. As however the outlay attendant on the structural changes which are requisite would be so great as doubtless to limit improvements to one market at a time, and as the Central Market of Victoria is by far the largest and the most important to the community while at the same time it is the one which calls the most urgently for reconstruction, the Board desires to submit its views in respect of this particular market at once, leaving the others which are comparatively of secondary moment to be attended to later.
3. The present locality of the Central Market is so thoroughly well adapted to the requirements of the town, and its access from the sea is so convenient as to make it difficult to improve upon the site, but the building which dates from the earliest days of the Colony was originally so imperfectly designed and so badly and cheaply constructed and has become since through age, so thoroughly dilapidated, as to render any amelioration hopeless unless it is entirely removed and substituted by another building more in accordance with modern ideas of market structures.
4. The Sanitary Board therefore begs to recommend that a new Central Market be built upon the site of the present one, and that the houses (shown tinted pink and yellow in the enclosed tracing) which are owned by private individuals, be resumed by the Government under the terms of the Crown Leases, the value of these properties to be assessed by the Surveyor General.
5. A glance at the enclosed tracing will at once show His Excellency the Governor the necessity of absorbing these private properties which now hem in the market premises shutting out all proper access and ventilation. No new design for a market will be successful from a Sanitary point of view unless these houses are cleared out of the way and the full width of the market premises thrown open to the breeze on the Queen's Road frontage as well as on the Praya side. It has been estimated that the aggregate value of these properties will amount to about $150,000.
6. An outlay of $150,000 for a simple extension of ground is doubtless very large, and as the cost of the new market building is estimated at about $60,000, the total cost of $210,000 might possibly discourage the Government from embarking in
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plan), from the Chairman of the
-Sanitary Board, ( the Honourable I. M. (the
Price), recommending, for assigned, the creation.
Market
the reasons
a new Central
of a
I san bear my testimony, from frequent personal inspection,
of the urgency of the completion of this work, on grounds of health, order, and cleanliness. The present
Central Market is a
British
City.
disgrace to any
I trust that your
Lordship will cause me
to be
authorized by telegraph to proced
with
(C.S.0. No. 1501 of 1883).
No. S.
SIR,
Enclosure
The Chairman, Sanitary Board to the Colonial Secretary.
179
SANITARY BOARD Room,
16th June, 1883.
With reference to your letter of the 13th April last and its enclosure, I have the honour to state in reply to paragraph 5 of the latter, that the Sanitary Board will shortly be in a position to submit a report, upon the proposed improved regu- lation of public markets generally.
2. As however the outlay attendant on the structural changes which are requisite would be so great as doubtless to limit improvements to one market at a time, and as the Central Market of Victoria is by far the largest and the most important to the community while at the same time it is the one which calls the most urgently for reconstruction, the Board desires to submit its views in respect of this particular market at once, leaving the others which are comparatively of secondary moment to be attended to later.
3. The present locality of the Central Market is so thoroughly well adapted to the requirements of the town, and its access from the sea is so convenient as to make it difficult to improve upon the site, but the building which dates from the earliest days of the Colony was originally so imperfectly designed and so badly and cheaply constructed and has become since through age, so thoroughly dilapidated, as to render any amelioration hopeless unless it is entirely removed and substituted by another building more in accordance with modern ideas of market structures.
4. The Sanitary Board therefore begs to recommend that a new Central Market be built upon the site of the present one, and that the houses (shewn tinted pink and yellow in the enclosed tracing) which are owned by private individuals, be resumed by the Government under the terms of the Crown Leases, the value of these properties to be assessed by the Surveyor General,
5. A glance at the enclosed tracing will at once show His Excellency the Governor the necessity of absorbing these private properties which now hem in the market premises shutting out all proper access and ventilation. No new design for a market will be successful from a Sanitary point of view unless these houses are cleared out of the way and the full width of the market premises thrown open to the breeze on the Queen's Road frontage as well as on the Praya side. It has been estimated that the aggregate value of these properties will amonut to about $150,000.
6. An outlay of $150,000 for a simple extension of ground is doubtless very large, and as the cost of the new market building is estimated at about $60,000, the total cost of $210,000 might possibly discourage the Government from embarking in
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