GOVERNMENT OFFICES

Evening Post, Volume 63, Issue 63, 14 March 1924, Page 8

GOVERNMENT OFFICES

ACCOMMODATION CHANGES.

A number of changes arc taking place

in the location of Government Ueparti ments. The Department of Industries and Com--1 msree, which lias occupied premises at : 156, The Terrace, for some time past, has removed to the sixth floor of the Dominion Fanners' Institute, and the former building has been occupied by the Geological Survey Department, which has been obliged to evacuate from tern, porary premises at 38, The Terrace, on account of demolition operations. The head office of the Registrar-General's Department is being shifted from the Gov- .. eminent Insurance Buildings to the Dominion Farmers' Institute, but the local office will remain on the ground floor of the Government Life Building. The completion of the State Fire Buildin" ■■ has made space available for several Departments, which have occupied somewhat inadequate and inconvenient quarters elsewhere. In a few : W^ k, s! hen the building has been suitably fitted up, the public office of the State Advances Department will be established on-the ground floor of the new budding W hil e the staff will be accommodated on the first and second floors. the third floor, the Land Transfer Office on the fourth and fifth, and the district ■ "?Sh fl &"d» Department on the fi^l T\ ;lhe ?° Ilce Department is finding that ,t requires more room in the Poace Building m Johnston street and consequently, the National Provident tSrUv le?« y». S°Cl^ iea offic«'^l vacate B^M- Tl,O' e. Government Insurance kutldmg. The Live-Stock Division of the Department of Agriculture has removed from the Customs Building to the third few t' c D, onH nio« Institute, join.ng the head office of the Depart-