GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
. m "While the Government is anxious to curtail building as far as possible, ! Cabinet has considered the Govern- ; ment Printing Office and is unanimous j that the quicker the construction is ! pushed on, the better it will be for
' the employees pnd the country as a whole," said the Minister in charge of . the Printing and Stationery Department (the Hon. P. C. Webb) in the ' House of Representatives last night.
The present building was overtaxed,
Mr. Webb added. The .york was enormous compared with what was done a few years ago. When he took over the Department the number of employees in the office was 400; now there were 600, and the building was ; overcrowded. He was alarmed at the state of the building. It was old and uneconomic. It had been added to and "patched up" from time to time ! and the previous Government had conjtemplated renewing it. He doubted i whether it had the resistance to stand I a severe earthquake.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 23, 26 July 1940, Page 5
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