IN NEW QUARTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 105, 6 May 1927, Page 8

IN NEW QUARTERS

GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

CONCENTRATED

Ihe removal of the Public Works workshop from the brick building in Sydney street, to Pipitea Point has permitted the concentration, of several Govornmont departments and branches of departments which for somo years have been somewhat scattered and accommodated in more or less inconvenient quarters. The Sydney street building has been brought up to date, a number of partitions having been erected to divide the interior into suitable office apartments, and those suites which are not already occupied will not long remain vacant.

The Mines Department, which hitherto has beon located in the Maritime Buildings on Customhouse quay, is now installed on the ground floor of the Sydney street block, while the Public Works District Office is on. tho floor above. In the same part of the building the inspector of explosives, who previously was in the Parliament Building, has new offices. Space has also been allocated for the film censor and his staff, who at present are in, the delapidated wood and iron shed in. Sydney street which at one time did service a s stables at the rear of the old Governmont House. In view of the cramped quarters the staff has been occupying for many years,' and tho added work involved in the new responsibilities of poster censorship, soon to be assumed by the Him censor, the change to larger quarters is. timely. Other branches of. State Departments to be housed in the old workshops building are the Henlth Department, sera, and dental stores, and the Agriculture Department laboratory.