DEMOLITION ORDERED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20859, 11 August 1942, Page 2

DEMOLITION ORDERED

MUNICIPAL- BUILDINGS FOUR IN WELLINGTON'\ DAMAGED BY ’QUAKE (P.A.)' , WELLINGTON,-this day. The fate of municipally-owned ■buildings' fft thr'i’eWn Half block w,ai? decided' at a. special,-meeting of the .Wellington City . .Council, which wag •callfed' yesterday'to 1 discuss. qgrtiiquakte damage. . , ; - Four buildings" owned By thri corporation, aite.to be -demolished. The Tovtfh Hall building is to be- vacated ■Pbr -about tlifteh Whftte 1 * 'ftepriif wek-k fe-gto-mg -oi#. L : Tempordfy;. dfffcefe to accommodate .therdtaff At'2o(l' will .bp., 'Phe'-tetffiri departmtetitls .offlteto, fofeerijs : thte old lire brigade is" considered nd longer fil-"fbr"6pqLvp,atipl^'. ; apd, is not regarded as worth repairing. It will be demolished 1 and: the traffic' department temporarily' housed iff- the boat shed.-pfoper.ty on the opposite side of Jervois .Quay,... The old Education Board, building af The hack', of thefTowfi, Hall,. .occur pied by the' Hrialth Department and National .Patriotic Funds j s to A itrijhediateiy; . sections .removed before' - Beilfg'- comf pletely demolished. Ttre-old, Technical building!, occupied by tlwumatpopolitan and pro) vincial patriotic councils, has' beeri condemned' aMT \Vili ' be' demolished The old libnri’y.-blvildirvgv a- large bride structure, standing _ ajt .the. back of Mercer a’ncf Waireriejci' s’treets, as also to be demolteh<RL i ■*-* Though the severe damage to the Town Hall- itsSf -eis-ri easily be repaired, and tjie budding made as saf<? ns before, * mb' IbuTfdm.g'' occupied by the city engineer and staff has been strained,- but- it is-isdlated- andwt can be restored to g'.§afig condition.