NEW STATION AND POST OFFICE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 27 July 1938, Page 11

NEW STATION AND POST OFFICE

Money for Public Buildings SUMS NEEDED IN CANTERBURY West Coast, Nelson, And Marlborough [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, July 26. Large sums are voted in the Public Works Estimates for expenditure on new public buildings in and nea~ Christchurch, the chief of which for the new railway station, courthouse, and post office. For the railway station and the rearrangement of the yards and terminus facilities, the total cost of which is now estimated at £724,000, the. sum of £103,000 has been voted for 193839. Altogether £30,194 had been spent on this work at March 31 this year, the expenditure last year . being £19,660 out of a vote of £75,000. For the “No. 1 block” of the post office, now in construction in Hereford street, £60,000 is on the estimates, compared with £25,000 voted a year ago, of which £19,000 has been spent. The total cost of this block is estimated at £113.000. On account of the “No. 2 block.” the mam post office, £SOO is voted. Nothing has yet been spent on this block, which is expected to cost £200.000. Another £IOOO is on the estimates for the Post and Telegraph Department’s store and workshops in the having been spent of the £IOOO votea last year for this work, which will cost £35,000. Additional land for a garage will cost £3500, that amount being voted.' , , Considerable sums are voted Jot suburban post offices. For Lmwood £2660 is set aside, which is expected to complete the work there; At S . Albans an expenditure of £4575 is contemplated; and at Sumner £757(1 Automatic exchanges and sites Mount Pleasant and New Brighton are provided for by votes of and £IBSO respectively. New Courthouse For the new courthouse in Christchurch £IO.OOO is* voted on account. This is half the. amount ;set aside , last year, of which nothing was spent. The total cost of the buildings is estimated at £220,000. At the Central Police Station work costing £2OOO is provided for, compared with a vote o £9OOO last year, which remained unspent—£2o,ooo is the amount estimated as necessary to complete the W Under e the head of mentol hospital buildings approximately £25,000 isset aside for Sunnyside an^ o The largest' items are £3710 tor the kitchen and ,a. new oven at Sunnyside, and £3600 for the water supply at Templeton. For “alterations, etc.. to the Skelton, Frostick buildings in Hereford street £6OOO is provided, which’is considered sufficient to finish the work, after an expenditure to date of £24,316. For the St. Helens Hospital, Christchurch, £7500 is set aside forthe purchase of additional land and £IOOO tor the building of the new hospital. The estimated total cost of the hospital is £75,000. Nothing was spent last year on either of these items. Summary of Estimates Expenditure on buildings under general heads is set out in the following table; Estimate. Spent 1938-39. 1937-38. £ £ fjpneral .. .. 1,258,985 340,378 Courthouses .. .. 102.950 21.463 Prison buildings and Police-stations' ” 1161245 16i086 Postal and telegraph .. 636,610 250,896 Mental hospitals .. 249,955 136,632 Health and hospital _ institutions .. 157,010 15,872 Following is a summary of the estimates for other building works of interest: — CanterburyEstimated amount Spent required to in be voted. 1937-38. £ £

Lincoln— Agronomy Building (heating and erection) . • • • S80 419 Glasshouse Block (Agronomy Division) • .. . 789 _ Glasshouse (Botany section) 250 — Temuka — Public Works Irrigation Office 690 Police Station 1,000 — Waiau — Post and Telegraph (additions and residence) 1,500 844 Ashburton — Courthouse (building and furnishing) .. 2,040 3,699 Post and Telegraph (additions) ' .. 3,000 Post and Telegraph (line store and garage) .. • • ■ 1,000 _ Glenavy— Police Station . • 1,000 — Linwood — Police Station • • 1,850 — Little River — 2,140 Police Station — New Brighton— Police Station (office) 250 — Oxford — Police station (additions) 1,000 _ Pleasant Point — Police Station 2,000 — Southbridge— Police Station (additions) 180 Timaru— Police Station 2 000 — Waimate — 1,000 Police Station — Post and Telegraph 420 2,553 (additions) Post and Telegraph (residence and site) 1,700 123 Belfast — Post Office 280 1.703 Amberley— Post and Telegraph (garage and store) 1,450 Hanmer. Queen Mary Hospital— Boiler-house and laundry 2,000 _ Massage and bathhouse 1,000 New Male Hospital (on account) 40.000 4,386 Water supply 2,000 West Coast Greymouth— Departmental buildings 8,600 Garage and workshop 1,100 Police Station (garage) 75 Police Station (residences) 1,000 Post and Telegraph (garage and workshop) 6,000 Hokitika— Post and Telegraph (site) 200 _ Post and Telegraph (office apd quar2,000 ters) — Mental Hospital, No. 4 Female Villa (erection and equipment) 9,600 Mental Hospital, No. 7 Male Villa (erection and equipment) • • • • 9,600 i

Estimated amount Spent required to in be voted. 1937-38. Mental Hospital. Nurses’ Home (erection and equip- £ £ ment) Mental Hospital, Re10.300 "** creation Hall 1.000 Mental Hospital, store and kitchen block « (alterations) Murchison— Post and Telegraph 2,000 (addition) Post and Telegraph 1.000 (residence and site) Matainui — 1.800 Courthouse 1.4P0 — Police Station 3.230 — Nelson and Marlborough Nelson— Departmental (depot and site) Courthouse (on ac2.000 * count) 1.C00 Police Station Post and Telegraph (line store, garage. 2.CC0 and workshop) 7.COO Mental Hospital ((Ngawhatu)— Alterations. main building Nos. 5, 6, and 7 Villas, erection and 1.000 equipment York Valley. Nurses’ 6.000 Home (erection) .. York Valley, Nurses’ 15.CM s Home (equipment) Motueka— Post and Telegraph (additions, garages. 3.CC0 land, etc.) Wakefield— Post and Telegraph 3.000 (additional land) Post and Telegraph 70 (additions) BlenheimDepartmental (garSCO 214 age) 250 — Courthouse 10.753 12.435 North Otago Oamaru— Police Station Post and Telegraph 1.000 (additions) 13.000 The Public Works printed on page 14. Estimates as*