TOWN HALL SITE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29643, 13 October 1961, Page 21

TOWN HALL SITE

“Critics Should Be Patient”

Town Hall Promotion should be patient and wait until the City Council’s town hall committee had a final answer from Sir William Holford to the committee's request for the date on which he could come to advise on the site for the town hall. This reply was given yesterday by Cr. H. P. Smith, chairman of the town hall committee, to statements made at a meeting of Town Hall Promotion's genera) committee on Wednesday. Members of the committee had expressed dissatisfaction at the delay in bringing Sir William Holford. the English town-planning expert, to advise on the site. Cr. Smith said Town Hall Promotion’s representatives on the town hall committee had given full support to the City Council's decision to engage Sir William Holford, and had taken part in all subsequent discussions and decisions. He said Town Hall Promotion should either be patient or offer some constructive alternative. Cr. Smith also queries the decision by Town Hall Promotion that its representatives on the town hall committee press for the appointment of a competent executive officer. He said the council already had a competent executive staff which was well able to deal with every question regarding the town hall. "It would be an unwarranted expenditure of funds to employ someone whose function related purely to the town hall executive,” he said.