CO129-573-15 Rebuilding of Government House 11-7-1938 - 30-9-1938 — Page 18

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(d) Sale of (former) Inland Lot

Number 564 7,000 square feet

at $30 per square foot.

LA

210,000

$ 2,722,500

Estimated cost new Government

House.

$ 2,000,000

Balance in excess

Add, value of present Government

722,500

House, if sold, 15,000 square

feet at $8 per square foot.

$ 1,200,000

$ 1,922,500

The financing of the new Government House is not, however, dependent on the actual sale of the sites referred to

above. Money can be found immediately from surplus balances which will be replenished in due course when the sites are actually sold. Nor does this proposal make it absolutely necessary to sell all the sites above

mentioned if, as a result of further consideration of

the development of this area, it is thought preferable to retain them or any parts of them for other purposes.

6.

It is not at present possible or desirable to

decide finally the second part of the scheme which concerns the provision of a new City Hall and new

Government Offices. The area occupied by the Secretariat

and other Government Offices which would be recovered

were the foregoing proposal to be realised could not be

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