POLICE STATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 10

POLICE STATION.

COPING WITH GROWTH BUILDING ALTERATIONS. DETAILS OF EXTENSIONS. Details of important additions and extensions to the building which serves as police headquarters in O'Rorke and Princes .Street are announced. Plans \and specifications of the work have been prepared by the Public Works. Department and approved by the Government and an early start will be made with the work. . For some years the existing buildin" has been far too small and even with the addition of a third storey to the police station live years ago, the officers and men at the station have had to work under conditions which can best be described a*, congested. Another storey i« to be built on the gymnasium, next, door to the watchhouse, making the building of two storeys. The new gymnasium will be fitted up with the latest athletic appliances and will be =ituated on the top floor. The bottom floor will be used for office accommodation for the uniform branch and also as an assembly room. 1 he present billiard room and library will be converted into offices for tli'c detective stall, which has for many years been housed downstairs on the main floor. The bottom floor will still be occupied bv detectives as. well as the second. 'I hp billiard room and library is to bcu rebuilt nearby. Other new buildings will include two additional garages for pobce cars, in tile yard alongside the present garages, which were used as stables in the °old days.