The Mount Cook Gaol, now officially known as the Alexandra Military Depot, is Wellington's greatest white elephant. It has never been seriously occupied as a gaol, and is so designed as to be of practically no value for any other purpose. It is considered to be an impossible task to rearrange the interior, and so solidly is this place bnilt that nothing short of dynamite will shift it. The gaol stands on the ground where i¥, is proposed to place the National Museum and the War Memorial Carillon.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 7
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88The Mount Cook Gaol, now officially known as the Alexandra Military Depot, is Wellington's greatest white elephant. It has never been seriously occupied as a gaol, and is so designed as to be of practically no value for any other purpose. It is considered to be an impossible task to rearrange the interior, and so solidly is this place bnilt that nothing short of dynamite will shift it. The gaol stands on the ground where i¥, is proposed to place the National Museum and the War Memorial Carillon. Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 7
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