LODGED TOO LATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 20

LODGED TOO LATE.

COUNCIL'S OBJECTION

ROTORUA POLICE STATIOR.

SITE IK SHOPPING AM^

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) : ROTORUA, this day. Intimation that representations w&ieh were made by the Rotonia Borou* Council three weeks ago objecting to tW new Rotorua Police Station beiae erected with a frontage to Tutanefa: Street, and 'also to the general prindigh of public buildings being erected on va£. able shopping sites, with frontage U Arawa and Tutanekai Streets, ven lodged too late to affect the erection of the proposed police station, was reeehri by the council last evening from tat Hon. P. Fraser, Minister in Charge «f the Police Department.

"I am afraid that the request of the council has been received too late acrii ously to affect the position of the rib for the new police stafion," stated tfe Minister. "The need for a new polim station at Rotorua is verv urgent ni I am afraid that any efforts to procun a new site would mean a very consider, able postponement in the erection of » new station. However. I am prepared to give further consideration to the matter."

The Minister suggested that the council was under a misapprehension ooacerning suitable sites for modern polite stations. During the past few years, at said, these buildings had usually beea of such an architectural standard that they were valuable adjuncts to the ntaia streets of towns, such as, for instance, at Palmerston North. It was essential that a police station should be at accessible as possible for the public it important towns such as Rotorua, particularly as one of the most conspicuous portions of the work of modern police was social work, altogether apart froa the detection and prevention of crime.

After fully discussing the Minister , ! reply the council decided to continue iti representations, and authorised tie Mayor, Mr. T. Jackson, to go to Weft JHjrton to interview Mr. Fraser pereoaally if necessary. It was pointed oat that the councils objection was not u much to the site of the police station at to the principle of using valuable both uesa frontages in a shopping area for the purpose of Government building*,